Lower mesophotic coral communities (60-125 m depth) of the northern great barrier reef and coral sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Englebert, Norbert ^a   Bongaerts, Pim ^a   Muir, Paul R ^b   Hay, Kyra B ^a   Pichon, Michel ^b   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEW SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85011591481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170336     Document Type: Article

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