Faunal relationships with seagrass habitat structure: A case study using shrimp from the Indo-Pacific

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1008-1018

  Unsworth, Richard K F ^a   Grave, Sammy De ^c   Jompa, Jamaluddin ^d   Smith, David J ^a   Bell, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Caridean shrimp; Habitat complexity; Habitat structure; Indonesia; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE PARK; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEAST SULAWESI; WAKATOBI MARINE NATIONAL PARK;

CARIDEAN; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 36749078078     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF07058     Document Type: Article

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