A deep nursery for juveniles of the zebra angelfish Genicanthus caudovittatus

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Brokovich, Eran ^a,b   Einbinder, Shai ^a,b   Kark, Salit ^b   Shashar, Nadav ^a,c   Kiflawi, Moshe ^a,c  

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

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bathymetric distribution; Deep coral reef; Fish distribution; Habitat partitioning; Technical diving

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CICHLID; CORAL REEF; DEEP WATER; JUVENILE; NICHE PARTITIONING; NURSERY GROUND; PLANKTIVORE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

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

ANTHOZOA; GENICANTHUS CAUDOVITTATUS; POMACANTHUS SEMICIRCULATUS;

EID: 34547746022     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9160-y     Document Type: Article

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