Role of habitat complexity in structuring temperate rockpool ichthyofaunas

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 313, Issue , 2006, Pages 227-239

  Griffiths, S P ^a,b   Davis, A R ^a   West, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial Seagrass Units (ASUs); Cover; Habitat structure; Intertidal; Persistence; Recolonisation; Recruitment; Tidepool

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ALGA; FISH; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROHABITAT; ROCK POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER COLUMN;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745627484     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps313227     Document Type: Article

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