Objective selection of surrogate families to describe reef fish assemblages in a subtropical marine park

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3611-3618

  Malcolm, Hamish A ^a,b   Smith, Stephen D A ^b,c  

^a New South Wales Government Marine Parks Authority   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; Conservation planning; Labridae; Marine protected area; Reef fish assemblage; RELATE; Representation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; LOGISTICS; MARINE PARK; PERCIFORM; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOLITARY ISLANDS MARINE PARK;

LABRIDAE; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 77958020303     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9913-y     Document Type: Article

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