Coral community development on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

Sammarco, P. W.

Abstract

This chapter summarizes what was known at the time regarding coral species richness, abundance, genetic affinities, and recruitment and the Mississippi River as a barrier to coral larval dispersal to the oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Date: 

2014

Book/Report Title: 

Interrelationships Between Corals and Fisheries

Pages: 

113–126

Editors: 

S. A. Bortone

Publisher: 

CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida

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