Recolonisation and recruitment of fishes to intertidal rockpools at Wellington, New Zealand

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 329-343

  Willis, Trevor J ^a,c   Roberts, Clive D ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Disturbance; Resilience; Rockpool fishes; Seasonal variability; Temperate reefs

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; FISH ASSEMBLAGE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RECOLONIZATION; RECRUITMENT; ROCK POOL; TIDE POOLS;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, WELLINGTON;

BELLAPISCIS MEDIUS; FORSTERYGION LAPILLUM; GASTROSCYPHUS HECTORIS; TRACHELOCHISMUS PINNULATUS;

EID: 0030302963     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00005047     Document Type: Article

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