Linking fish and prawns to their environment: A hierarchical landscape approach

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 283, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-254

  Pittman, S J ^a,c   McAlpine, C A ^a   Pittman, K M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Springfield   (United Kingdom)

^c National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Hierarchy; Landscape structure; Mangroves; Marine landscape ecology; Path analysis; Penaeid prawns; Seagrass; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEKTON; PATH ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HALOPHILA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA CAPRICORNI;

EID: 11244346958     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps283233     Document Type: Article

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