Occupancy estimation of marine species: Dealing with imperfect detectability

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 453, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-106

  Issaris, Yiannis ^a,b   Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a   Salomidi, Maria ^a   Tsiamis, Kostas ^a   Katsiaras, Nikos ^a   Verriopoulos, George ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Detectability; Monitoring; Occupancy; Underwater visual survey

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DETECTION METHOD; GREEN ALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SNAIL; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; UNDERWATER CAMERA; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARONIKOS GULF;

CHLOROPHYTA; CODIUM FRAGILE; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA;

EID: 84861069173     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09668     Document Type: Article

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