Progress and perspectives on question-driven coral-reef monitoring

BioScience

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 297-303

  Houk, Peter ^a,b   Van Woesik, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUAM MARINE LABORATORY   (Guam)

^b Pacific Marine Resources Institute   (Northern Mariana Islands)

^c Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

coral reef monitoring; perspective; population variance; statistical power; survey designs

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84876547744     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.4.10     Document Type: Article

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