Fish with chips: Tracking reef fish movements to evaluate size and connectivity of Caribbean marine protected areas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Pittman, Simon J ^a,b,c   Monaco, Mark E ^a   Friedlander, Alan M ^d   Legare, Bryan ^b,e   Nemeth, Richard S ^b   Kendall, Matthew S ^a   Poti, Matthew ^a   Clark, Randall D ^a   Wedding, Lisa M ^a,f   Caldow, Chris ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSMITTER; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CENTRAL AMERICA; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FISH; FIXED ACOUSTIC RECEIVER ARRAY; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PUERTO RICO;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84900410929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096028     Document Type: Article

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