A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Teh, Louise S L ^a   Teh, Lydia C L ^a   Sumaila, U Rashid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MANPOWER; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SOCIAL PLANNING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879219073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065397     Document Type: Article

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