Variability in Abundance of Temperate Reef Fishes Estimated by Visual Census

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Irigoyen, Alejo J ^a   Galván, David E ^a   Venerus, Leonardo A ^a   Parma, Ana M ^a  

^a Centro Nacional Patagonico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHISTIUS PATACHONICUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; FISH; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NEMADACTYLUS BERGI; NONHUMAN; PINGUIPES BRASILIANUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PSEUDOPERCIS SEMIFASCIATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEBASTES OCULATUS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNDERWATER VISUAL CENSUS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CENSUSES; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACANTHISTIUS; NEMADACTYLUS BERGI; PINGUIPES BRASILIANUS; PISCES; PSEUDOPERCIS SEMIFASCIATA; SEBASTES OCULATUS;

EID: 84875920948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061072     Document Type: Article

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