Spatial and temporal variability in the effects of fish predation on macrofauna in relation to habitat complexity and cage effects

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 224, Issue , 2001, Pages 231-250

  Hindell, Jeremy S ^a   Jenkins, Gregory P ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a Mar and Freshw Resources Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cage artefacts; Cephalopods; Crustaceans; Exclusion cages; Fish; Meiofauna; Predation; Seagrass; Temperate; Unvegetated sand

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; CRUSTACEAN; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MEIOFAUNA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA;

ANIMALIA; ATHERINIDAE; CEPHALOPODA; CLUPEIDAE; CRUSTACEA; HALOPHILA; PALAEMONIDAE; PISCES; SYNGNATHIDAE;

EID: 0035915518     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps224231     Document Type: Article

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