A standard unit for monitoring recruitment of fishes to coral reef rubble

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 336, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-183

  Valles, Henri ^a   Kramer, Donald L ^a   Hunte, Wayne ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Coral reef fishes; Crustaceans; Monitoring; Recruitment; Rubble; Scarids; Settlement

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; CORAL REEF; FISH; FRINGING REEF; MICROHABITAT; MONITORING; PREDATION RISK; RECRUITMENT; SAMPLING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CRUSTACEA; GOBIIDAE; LYTHRYPNUS; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE; PSEUDOGRAMMA GREGORYI; SCARIDAE; SCARUS; SERRANIDAE; SPARISOMA; STEGASTES PARTITUS;

EID: 33746319011     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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