Rapid assessment of epibenthic communities: A comparison between two visual sampling techniques

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 395, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 21-29

  Parravicini, Valeriano ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^b   Montefalcone, Monica ^a   Villa, Elisa ^a   Morri, Carla ^a   Bianchi, Carlo Nike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epibenthos; Mediterranean Sea; Replication; Rocky reef; Sampling; Underwater survey; Visual census

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SCUBA DIVING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNDERWATER CAMERA; VISUAL CUE;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77957900729     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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