Fish and invertebrate communities show greater day and night partitioning on tropical than temperate reefs from visual census surveys, Australia (2020-2023)

Standardized underwater visual census surveys were conducted during the day and at night at 54 reef sites distributed throughout tropical (n = 30) and temperate (n = 24) regions spanning the Australian continent. Diel variation in reef faunal assemblages was assessed using the Reef Life Survey (RLS) methodology (Edgar et al. 2020), during day and night periods between November 2020 and May 2023. Occurrences records from cited dataset at https://doi.org/10.25959/PAR1-EB98, accessed on 2024-09-24.

Citation: Jones, T. (2024). Fish and invertebrate communities show greater day/night partitioning on tropical than temperate reefs [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. https://doi.org/10.25959/PAR1-EB98

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