Importance of mangroves, seagrass beds and the shallow coral reef as a nursery for important coral reef fishes, using a visual census technique

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-44

  Nagelkerken, I ^a,b   Van Der Velde, G ^a   Gorissen, M W ^a   Meijer, G J ^a   Van't Hof, T ^c   Den Hartog, C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c Marine and Coastal Resource Management   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bays; Caribbean Sea; Fish; Mangrove swamps; Nursery grounds; Ontogenetic shifts; Reefs; Sea grasses

Indexed keywords

BIOTOPE; CENSUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORAL REEF; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MANGROVE; NURSERY GROUND; SEAGRASS;

BONAIRE; LAC BAY; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

ABUDEFDUF SAXATILIS; ACANTHURIDAE; ACANTHURUS BAHIANUS; ACANTHURUS CHIRURGUS; ACANTHURUS COERULEUS; ANISOTREMUS SURINAMENSIS; ANTHOZOA; CHAETODON CAPISTRATUS; HAEMULIDAE; HAEMULON CARBONARIUM; HAEMULON CHRYSARGYREUM; HAEMULON FLAVOLINEATUM; HAEMULON SCIURUS; HALOPHILA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LUTJANIDAE; LUTJANUS APODUS; LUTJANUS GRISEUS; LUTJANUS GRISSEUS; LUTJANUS MAHOGONI; OCYURUS CHRYSURUS; PISCES; POACEAE; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SPARISOMA VIRIDE; SPHYRAENA BARRACUDA; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 0033837729     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ecss.2000.0617     Document Type: Article

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