Monitoring marine populations and communities: Methods dealing with imperfect detectability

Aquatic Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-52

  Katsanevakis, S ^a,b   Weber, A ^c   Pipitone, C ^d   Leopold, M ^e   Cronin, M ^f   Scheidat, M ^e   Doyle, T K ^f   Buhl Mortensen, L ^g   Buhl Mortensen, P ^g   D'Anna, G ^d   de Boois, I ^e   Dalpadado, P ^g   Damalas, D ^a,b   Fiorentino, F ^d   Garofalo, G ^d   Giacalone, V M ^d   Hawley, K L ^c   Issaris, Y ^a   Jansen, J ^e   Knight, C M ^c   Knittweis, L ^h   Kroncke I ⁱ   Mirto, S ^d   Muxika, I ^j   Reiss, H ^i,k   Skjoldal, H R ^g   Voge S ⁱ   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^g INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h Ministry for Resources and Rural Affairs   (Malta)

ⁱ SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^j MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^k NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

more..

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Detectability; Distance sampling; Mark recapture; Occupancy; Plot sampling; Removal methods; Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863549342     PISSN: 18647782     EISSN: 18647790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ab00426     Document Type: Review

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