Aragonite saturation state and deep-sea coral distribution in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands
Seamounts play key roles in the ecology of deep-sea fauna acting as sites of high speciation and hence endemism, oases of biomass and biodiversity. Central to biodiversity are deep-sea corals (DSC), important habitat-forming organisms for invertebrates and fishes, yet the ecology and ecosystem funct...
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2017
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/164450 |