Diversity of corals and benthic algae across the shallow-water reefs of Andaman Islands: managing the valuable ecosystems

• Main Authors: Suman Sarkar, Samir Sarkar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Blair; Indian; Ross Island
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-015-9709-z

Abstract The Andaman Islands characterize one of the relatively unexplored coral reef zones of the Indian subcontinent. A few benthic biodiversity studies have been carried out to date, but several coral and algal species still remain to be evaluated in terms of their abundance, vigour and conservat...