Building a baseline for habitat-forming corals by a multi-source approach, including Web Ecological Knowledge

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1257-1276

  Di Camillo, Cristina G ^a   Ponti, Massimo ^b   Bavestrello, Giorgio ^c   Krzelj, Maja ^d   Cerrano, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Citizen science; Foundation species; Mesophotic habitats; Social media; Web

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISHING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PLANNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; EUNICELLA CAVOLINI; EUNICELLA SINGULARIS; EUNICELLA VERRUCOSA; LEPTOGORGIA SARMENTOSA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA;

EID: 85038847455     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-017-1492-8     Document Type: Article

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