Fixed-station monitoring of a harbour wall community: The utility of low-cost photomosaics and scuba on hard-substrata

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 690-703

  van Rein, H ^a   Brown, C J ^a,b   Schoeman, D S ^a   Quinn, R ^a   Breen, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b McGregor GeoScience Limited   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benthos; Growth; Invertebrates; Macrophytes; Monitoring; Mortality; New techniques; Photomosaics; Recruitment; Sublittoral

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL; DIGITIZATION; FILTER FEEDER; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; HARBOR; MACROALGA; MACROPHYTE; MONITORING SYSTEM; MORTALITY; PHOTOINHIBITION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RED ALGA; SEAWATER; SPONGE; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TURBIDITY; UNDERSTORY; WATER COLUMN;

ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CARYOPHYLLIA SMITHII; HYMENIACIDON PERLEVE; INVERTEBRATA; PLOCAMIUM; PLOCAMIUM CARTILAGINEUM; PORIFERA;

EID: 82155178527     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1230     Document Type: Article

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