Using informal knowledge to infer human-induced rarity of a conspicuous reef fish

Animal Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 365-374

  Dulvy, Nicholas K ^a,b   Polunin, Nicholas V C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; FISHING COMMUNITY; MONITORING; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DECLINE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

FIJI; LAU GROUP; MELANESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

BOLBOMETOPON MURICATUM; MARTES; SCARIDAE; SPARISOMA CRETENSE;

EID: 14044275556     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943004001519     Document Type: Article

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