Floating and fixed artificial habitats: Effects of substratum motion on benthic communities in a coral reef environment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 317, Issue , 2006, Pages 9-20

  Perkol Finkel, S ^a   Zilman, G ^a   Sella, I ^a   Miloh, T ^a   Benayahu, Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial reefs; Benthic communities; Coastal development; Corals; Current regime; Hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; ARTIFICIAL REEF; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORAL REEF; CURRENT VELOCITY; FLOATING BODY; HABITAT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; SHEAR STRESS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33747608183     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps317009     Document Type: Article

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