How the acquired behaviour of commercial reef fishes may influence the results obtained from visual censuses

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 11-30

  Kulbicki, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Distance; Reef fish; Visual census

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; COMMERICAL FISHERY; DISTURBANCE; REEF FISH; SCHOOLING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FISH; HUMAN; LAGOON; NONHUMAN; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032053540     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00133-0     Document Type: Article

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