High coral cover at lower mesophotic depths: a dense Agaricia community at the leeward side of Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 67-70

  Hoeksema, Bert W ^a,b   Bongaerts, Pim ^c   Baldwin, Carole C ^d  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral community; Depth records; Foliaceous corals; Manned submersible; Reef fishes; Zooxanthellate corals

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL; CORAL RECORD; CORAL REEF; FISH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SUBMERSIBLE; WATER DEPTH; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); CURACAO; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

AGARICIA; ANTHOZOA; CURA; LEPTOSERIS; PISCES; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84955575735     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-015-0431-8     Document Type: Article

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