Variation in juvenile fish density along the mangrove-seagrass-coral reef continuum in SW Puerto Rico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 348, Issue , 2007, Pages 139-148

  Aguilar Perera, Alfonso ^a,b   Appeldoorn, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Mangroves; Puerto Rico; Reef fishes; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; MANGROVE; MIGRATION; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAGRASS; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

ACANTHURIDAE; ANTHOZOA; HAEMULIDAE; LUTJANIDAE; PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SCARIDAE;

EID: 36649007049     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07082     Document Type: Article

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