Identifying suitable locations for mesophotic hard corals offshore of Maui, Hawai'i

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Costa, Bryan ^a,b   Kendall, Matthew S ^a   Parrish, Frank A ^c   Rooney, John ^c   Boland, Raymond C ^c   Chow, Malia ^a   Lecky, Joey ^a   Montgomery, Anthony ^d   Spalding, Heather ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CSS Inc under contract to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management   (United States)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d Office of National Marine Sanctuaries National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORAL; ENTROPY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEA; SOFTWARE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84941309269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130285     Document Type: Article

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