Counting coral reef fishes: Interaction between fish life-history traits and transect design

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 387, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 15-23

  Kulbicki, Michel ^a   Cornuet, Nathaniel ^b   Vigliola, Laurent ^b   Wantiez, Laurent ^c   Moutham, Gérard ^b   Chabanet, Pascale ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

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

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE   (New Caledonia)

^d NONE   (Reunion)

Author keywords

Bias; Density estimate; Fish; Transect; Underwater visual census

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CENSUS; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; FISH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSECT; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

CALEDONIA COUNTY; POLYNESIA; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 77950993527     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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