Short and long-term movement and site fidelity of juvenile Haemulidae in back-reef habitats of a Caribbean embayment

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 592, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 257-270

  Verweij, Marieke C ^a   Nagelkerken, I ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coded wire tags; Daytime activity radius; Habitat connectivity; Mangroves; Rocky shoreline; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CODED WIRE TAGS; DAYTIME ACTIVITY RADIUS; HABITAT CONNECTIVITY; MANGROVES; ROCKY SHORELINES; SEAGRASS;

FISH;

CONNECTIVITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; JUVENILE; MANGROVE; MOVEMENT; PERCIFORM; REEF; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SHORELINE; SITE FIDELITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; HAEMULIDAE; HAEMULON FLAVOLINEATUM; HAEMULON SCIURUS; PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 34548422704     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0772-9     Document Type: Article

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