Consistent long-term spatial gradients in replenishment for an island population of a coral reef fish

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 306, Issue , 2006, Pages 247-256

  Hamilton, Scott L ^a   White, J Wilson ^a   Caselle, Jennifer E ^a   Swearer, Stephen E ^b   Warner, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Larval delivery; Population replenishment; Recruitment; Self recruitment; Spatial patterns; St. Croix; Thalassoma bifasciatum

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; ISLAND; RECRUITMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

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

ANTHOZOA; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM; THALASSOMA LUCASANUM;

EID: 32644445406     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps306247     Document Type: Article

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