Chasing fish and catching data: Recreational spearfishing videos as a tool for assessing the structure of fish assemblages on shallow rocky reefs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 506, Issue , 2014, Pages 255-265

  Bulleri, Fabio ^a   Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Fish assemblages; Mediterranean; Rocky reefs; Spearfishing; Underwater video; Underwater visual census

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; DATA SET; FISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84903273108     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10804     Document Type: Article

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