Re-Creating Missing Population Baselines for Pacific Reef Sharks

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 493-503

  Nadon, Marc O ^a,b,c   Baum, Julia K ^d   Williams, Ivor D ^a,c   Mcpherson, Jana M ^e,f   Zgliczynski, Brian J ^g   Richards, Benjamin L ^c   Schroeder, Robert E ^c   Brainard, Russell E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^e Calgary Zoological Society   (Canada)

^f SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Hierarchical model; Marine macroecology; Predators; Species distribution modeling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIOMASS; CORAL REEF; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREDATOR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHARK; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEASON; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENT; FISHERIES; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEASONS; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

AMERICAN SAMOA; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MARIANA ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

ANTHOZOA; CARCHARHINUS AMBLYRHYNCHOS; CARCHARHINUS SPRINGERI; CHONDRICHTHYES; TRIAENODON OBESUS;

EID: 84861183339     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01835.x     Document Type: Article

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