Estimating the abundance of benthic invertebrates: A comparison of procedures and variability between observers

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 93-101

  Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a   Airoldi, Laura ^a   Abbiati, Marco ^a   Cinelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analyses; Design of sampling; Efficiency; invertebrates; Precision; Robustness; Submarine caves

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIVING SURVEY; EPIFAUNA; INVERTEBRATES; METHOD EVALUATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; SAMPLING;

ASTROIDES CALYCULARIS; LEPTOSAMMIA PRUVOTI;

EID: 0029669560     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps138093     Document Type: Article

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