Human, oceanographic and habitat drivers of central and western pacific coral reef fish assemblages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Williams, Ivor D ^a   Baum, Julia K ^b   Heenan, Adel ^a,c   Hanson, Katharine M ^c   Nadon, Marc O ^a,c   Brainard, Russell E ^a  

^a PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SAMOA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DRIVER; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PISCIVORE; PLANKTIVORE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRODUCTIVITY; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; FISH; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84927130961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120516     Document Type: Article

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