Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island-an isolated marine protected area

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1186-1197

  White, Easton R ^a,d   Myers, Mark C ^b   Flemming, Joanna Mills ^c   Baum, Julia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Eastern tropical Pacific; Fisheries; Generalized linear mixed models; Marine reserve; MPA; Sharks; Zero inflated

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; EXTINCTION RISK; FISHERY PRODUCTION; HOME RANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; POPULATION DECLINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHARK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEOST; VULNERABILITY;

COCOS ISLAND; COSTA RICA; PUNTARENAS;

CARCHARHINUS GALAPAGENSIS; CARCHARHINUS LIMBATUS; CARCHARHINUS SPRINGERI; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GALEOCERDO CUVIER; MANTA BIROSTRIS; MOBULA; MOBULINAE; RHINCODON TYPUS; SPHYRNA LEWINI; SPHYRNIDAE; TRIAENODON OBESUS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHARK; SKATES (FISH);

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHARKS; SKATES (FISH);

EID: 84937034049     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12478     Document Type: Article

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