Rigs-to-Reefs in Mexico: Where to reef oil rigs in the southern Gulf of Mexico?

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Offshore oil platform substructures often transform into reef habitats by providing attachment surfaces for corals and algae, and shelter for commercially valuable fish. While few formal studies exist for these unintended artificial habitats in the oil exploration areas in the Southern Gulf of Mexico (SGOM), and abandonment plans for these structures remain unclear, evidence suggests th...

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• Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
• Anthozoa
• Bayes Theorem
• Coral Reefs
• Demography
• Genetics, Population
• Models, Genetic
• Species Specificity

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Literature Corpus work

caf86fcb-2521-5377-981e-0db703ded981

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-7403177/v1