Submarine Canyons: Their role in shaping biodiversity patterns on the Australian margin
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Submarine canyons are recognised as potential areas of high biological productivity and marine life aggregation, in Australia ranging from deep water corals to foraging blue whales. While factors such as nutrient upwelling and the presence of hard substrate can account for the biodiversity of particular canyons, the variability of these characteristics between canyons at the national scale is poorly understood.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015