Platform Recruited Reef Fish, Phase I: Do Platforms Provide Habitat That Increase the Survival of Juvenile Reef Fishes?

There are currently over 4000 functioning oil and gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Gulf). Platform operations, and their prior drilling operations, produce trace amounts of lead, barium, vanadium, and lanthanum residues that are leached into the surrounding waters and are deposited on t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nowling, Lauren Kay
Other Authors: James H. Cowan, Jr.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2005
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11142005-110327/