Survey of nearshore fish communities on tropical backreef lagoons on the southeastern coast of St. Croix

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-342

  Mateo, Ivan ^a,b   Tobias, William J ^a  

^a USVI Division of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Juvenile fish; Nursery; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; JUVENILE; LAGOON; NURSERY GROUND; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; SAINT CROIX; VIRGIN ISLANDS; VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.); WORLD;

ALGAE; HAEMULIDAE; HAEMULON; HALICHOERES; HALICHOERES BIVITTATUS; HALOPHILA; LABRIDAE; PARUPENEUS BARBERINUS; PSEUDUPENEUS; PSEUDUPENEUS MACULATUS; SCARIDAE; SPARISOMA CRETENSE; SPARISOMA RADIANS;

EID: 13244295397     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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