Fish community composition of a tropical nonestuarine embayment in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Fisheries Science

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1213-1223

  Lugendo, Blandina R ^a,b   Nagelkerken, Ivan ^b   Jiddawi, Narriman ^c   Mgaya, Yunus D ^a   Van Der Velde, Gerard ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fishes; Indian Ocean; Mangroves; Marine bay; Seagrasses; Species overlap

Indexed keywords

PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 36749038397     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2007.01458.x     Document Type: Article

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