Monitoring coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves in Costa Rica (CARICOMP)

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Cortés, Jorge ^a   Fonseca, Ana C ^a,b   Nivia Ruiz, Jaime ^a   Nielsen Muñoz, Vanessa ^a   Samper Villarreal, Jimena ^a   Salas, Eva ^a   Martínez, Solciré ^a   Zamora Trejos, Priscilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b World Wildlife Fund (WWF)   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Cahuita; Caribbean; CARICOMP; Coral reef; Costa Rica; Diadema antillarum; Gandoca; Mangrove; Productivity; Rhizophora mangle; Seagrass; Thalassia testudinum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

CORAL REEFS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINOIDEA; ECHINOMETRA VIRIDIS; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 78650702893     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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