Use of multivariate control charts to assess the status of reef fish assemblages in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

A distance-based multivariate control chart is a useful tool for ecological monitoring to detect changes in biological community resulting from natural or anthropogenic disturbances at permanent monitoring sites. It is based on a matrix of any distances or dissimilarities among observations obtained...

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Main Authors: Atsuko Fukunaga, Randall K. Kosaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3651.pdf