Method for monitoring intertidal communities in a steep rocky shore: a combination of digital image technology and field operational strategy

This paper introduces a method for temporal studies of steep rocky intertidal communities. It combines the use of digital image technology with field methodology, so that a wide area of the community can be sampled in a short time. Two current nondestructive percent cover estimation methods (visual...

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Main Authors: Danuza Nogueira Moysés, Andréa de Oliveira R. Junqueira, Helena Passeri Lavrado, Sérgio Henrique Gonçalves da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2007-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-87592007000100003