Baseline Data for Evaluating Reef Fish Populations in the Florida Keys, 1979-1998

Bohnsack, James A.; McClellan, David B.; Harper, Douglas E.; Davenport, Guy S.; Konoval, George J.; Eklund, Anne-Marie; Contillo, Joseph P.; Bolden, Stephania K.; Fischel, Peter C.; Sandorf, G. Scott; Javech, Joaquin; White, Michael W.; Pickett, Matthew H.; Hulsbeck, Mark W.; Tobias, Jame L.

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Baseline Data for Evaluating Reef Fish Populations in the Florida Keys, 1979-1998

1999
By Bohnsack, James A. ; McClellan, David B. ; Harper, Douglas E. ; ...
Series: NOAA technical memorandum NMFS SEFSC 427

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Bohnsack, James A. ; McClellan, David B. ; Harper, Douglas E. ; Davenport, Guy S. ; Konoval, George J. ; Eklund, Anne-Marie ; Contillo, Joseph P. ; Bolden, Stephania K. ; Fischel, Peter C. ; Sandorf, G. Scott ; Javech, Joaquin ; White, Michael W. ; Pickett, Matthew H. ; Hulsbeck, Mark W. ; Tobias, Jame L.
Corporate Authors:

Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
Description:

This report provides a summary of a 20 year historical data base that will form the baseline for assessing future changes in reef fish communities in the FKNMS. A total of 263 fish taxa from 54 families were observed from 118 sites in the Florida Keys from 6,673 visual stationary plot samples from 1979 through 1998. The ten most abundant species accounted for 59% of all individuals observed. Ten species had a frequency-ofoccurrence in samples greater than 50% and only ten species accounted for 55% of the total observed biomass.
Keywords:

Reef fishes
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NOAA technical memorandum NMFS SEFSC 427
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Technical Memorandum
Place as Subject:

Florida Keys (Fla.)
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Public domain
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urn:sha256:aaebc8b59ec1f155fabbdb34143e533e2496be861247a94c07414a342e164d9a
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/30889/noaa_30889_DS1.pdf
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