Population status of the long-spined urchin diadema antillarum in Puerto Rico 20 years after a mass mortality event

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-127

  Ruiz Ramos, Dannise V ^a   Hernández Delgado, Edwin A ^b   Schizas, Nikolaos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; CORALLINE ALGA; ECHINODERM; FIELD SURVEY; MACROALGA; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; TRANSECT; TRANSPARENCY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; CULEBRA; PUERTO RICO;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 79551578069     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5343/bms.2010.1038     Document Type: Article

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