A critical approach to the use of published data for baseline characterisation of marine fish assemblages: An exercise on Portuguese coastal waters

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 69, Issue , 2012, Pages 173-184

  Pais, Miguel Pessanha ^a   Henriques, Sofia ^a   Costa, Maria José ^a   Cabral, Henrique Nogueira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MANAGEMENT; COASTAL WATERS; CRITICAL APPROACH; DATA SETS; DISTANCE-BASED; ECOLOGICAL GUILD; FISH COMMUNITIES; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION GAP; INITIAL ASSESSMENT; MAINLAND PORTUGAL; MARINE FISH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; NEARSHORES; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PILOT STUDIES; PLANNING AND DESIGN; POLICY MAKERS; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SOFT SUBSTRATES; TEMPORAL SCALE;

FISH; REEFS;

SUBSTRATES;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DATABASE; FISH; GUILD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; REEF; ROCKY SHORE; SUBSTRATE;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84866879713     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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