Inter-reef vertebrate communities of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park determined by baited remote underwater video stations

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 350, Issue , 2007, Pages 209-221

  Cappo, Mike ^a,b   De'ath, Glenn ^a   Speare, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demersal fish communities; Inter reef; Multivariate regression trees; Underwater baited video

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMERSAL FISH; REEF; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERWATER CAMERA; VERTEBRATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BOWEN; CAPE FLATTERY; GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK; NORTH AMERICA; QUEENSLAND; TOWNSVILLE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CHONDRICHTHYES; HYDROPHIIDAE; OSTEICHTHYES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37849034054     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07189     Document Type: Article

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