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New opportunities for conservation of handfishes (Family Brachionichthyidae) and other inconspicuous and threatened marine species through citizen science

2017-04-01

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Volunteer divers participating in the Reef Life Survey (RLS) program actively assist species conservation efforts by generating data for threat assessments and population trend monitoring, through in-water restoration efforts, and through outreach of marine conservation messages. Up to 2014, standardised underwater visual survey data provided by RLS divers described densities of 495 cryptic fish species at over 12...

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Literature Corpus work: 46cadfcb-8e8f-5184-91e0-64bd48927f98
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.07.028

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