Habitat structure determines coral reef fish assemblages at the northern tip of the Red Sea

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 494-507

  Brokovich, Eran ^a   Baranes, Albert ^a   Goren, Menachem ^b  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eilat; Gulf of Aqaba; Monitoring; Multivariate

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MARINE BIOLOGY; MONITORING;

EILAT; GULF OF AQABA; MULTIVARIATE;

BIODIVERSITY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; FISH; HABITAT;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33646780608     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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