Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program

Scientific Data

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Edgar, Graham J ^a   Stuart Smith, Rick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; FISH;

ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES;

EID: 84933680711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2014.7     Document Type: Article

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