Relationships between habitat structure and fish communities on coral and sandstone reefs

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-31

  Öhman, Marcus C ^a   Rajasuriya, Arjan ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency Colombo   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Distribution patterns; Diversity; Fish assemblages; Indian Ocean; Sri Lanka; Structural complexity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; REEF;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0031687660     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007445226928     Document Type: Article

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