Rapid biodiversity assessment and monitoring method for highly diverse benthic communities: A case study of mediterranean coralligenous outcrops

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Kipson, Silvija ^a,c   Fourt, Maïa ^b   Teixidó, Núria ^a,f   Cebrian, Emma ^d   Casas, Edgar ^a   Ballesteros, Enric ^e   Zabala, Mikel ^f   Garrabou, Joaquim ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^e CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORALLIGENOUS OUTCROP; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PARAMURICEA CLOVATA; PHOTOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CORALLIUM RUBRUM; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80355136501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027103     Document Type: Article

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