Abiotic surrogates for temperate rocky reef biodiversity: Implications for marine protected areas

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 284-296

  Rees, Matthew J ^a   Jordan, Alan ^b   Price, Owen F ^a   Coleman, Melinda A ^b   Davis, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fish; Marine protected areas; Remote sensing; Sessile invertebrate; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893982170     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12134     Document Type: Article

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