Spatially and temporally predictable fish communities on coral reefs

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-50

  Ault, Timothy R ^a,b   Johnson, Craig R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN WATER QUALITY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community structure; Contiguous reef; Coral reef fish; Habitat structure; Ordination; Patch reef; Population density; Recruitment; Recruitment limitation; Reef connectivity; Regression; Vagility

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHROMIS CHROMIS; POMACENTRUS MOLUCCENSIS;

EID: 0031685114     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0025:SATPFO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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