Spatial Distribution of Reef Fish Species along the Southeast US Atlantic Coast Inferred from Underwater Video Survey Data

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 9; p. e0162653
• Main Authors: Bacheler, Nathan M, Schobernd, Zebulon H, Berrane, David J, Schobernd, Christina M, Mitchell, Warren A, Teer, Bradford Z, Gregalis, Kevan C, Glasgow, Dawn M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 21.09.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Abundance; Balistes capriscus; Biology and Life Sciences; Centropristis striata; Coastal environments; Commercial fishing; Continental shelves; Data collection; Dicentrarchus labrax; Earth Sciences; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Engineering and Technology; Epinephelus itajara; Fish; Fisheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Fishing; Generalized linear models; Habitats; Lutjanus campechanus; Marine; Marine fish; Marine fishes; Ocean currents; Pagrus pagrus; Rare species; Reef fish; Rhomboplites aurorubens; Science; Sea bass; Spatial distribution; Species richness; Surveys; Underwater; Variability; North Carolina; Florida; United States > US; South Carolina

Marine fish abundance and distribution often varies across spatial scales for a variety of reasons, and this variability has significant ecological and management consequences. We quantified the distribution of reef-associated fish species along the southeast United States Atlantic coast using under...