Use of sonar transects to improve efficiency and reduce potential bias in visual surveys of reef fishes

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-297

  Patterson, Heather M ^a,b   Lindsay, Malcolm ^a   Swearer, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Reef fish; Sampling methods; Sonar; Transects; Underwater visual census

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; PERCIFORM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REEF; SAMPLING; SAMPLING BIAS; SIMILARITY INDEX; SONAR; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEYING; TRANSECT; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

CHAETODON TRICINCTUS; PISCES;

EID: 33947547704     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9096-2     Document Type: Article

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