Corals on Seamounts

Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries & Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-169

  Rogers, Alex D ^a,b   Baco, Amy ^c   Griffiths, Huw ^a   Hart, Thomas ^a   Hall Spencer, Jason M ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antipatharia; Corals; Octocorallia; Scleractinia; Sessile organisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940349624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691953.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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