Benthic composition of a healthy subtropical reef: Baseline species-level cover, with an emphasis on algae, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Vroom, Peter S ^a   Braun, Cristi L ^a  

^a PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROALGA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SEAWEED; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GLOBAL WARMING; HAWAII; MICROALGAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWEED;

EID: 79951633902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009733     Document Type: Article

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