Coral reef benthic video surveys facilitate long-term monitoring in the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Toward an optimal sampling strategy

Pacific Science

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-189

  Houk, Peter ^a,b   Van Woesik, Robert ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Division of Environmental Quality ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; SURVEYING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33645389727     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2006.0005     Document Type: Article

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