Possible effects of downwelling on the recruitment of coral reef fishes to the Eilat (Red Sea) coral reefs

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2618-2628

  Ben Tzvi, Ofer ^a,b   Kiflawi, Moshe ^a,c   Gildor, Hezi ^d   Abelson, Avigdor ^b  

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

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DOWNWELLING; FISH; LARVA; RECRUITMENT; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; EILAT; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 36749064935     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2618     Document Type: Article

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