The Relationship between Diver Experience Levels and Perceptions of Attractiveness of Artificial Reefs - Examination of a Potential Management Tool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kirkbride Smith, Anne E ^a   Wheeler, Philip M ^a   Johnson, Magnus L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL REEF; CHILD; CORAL REEF; DIVER; DIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880745738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068899     Document Type: Article

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