Seagrass habitat reduces vulnerability of red sea bream Pagrus major juveniles to piscivorous fish predator

Fisheries Science

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1281-1285

  Shoji, Jun ^a   Sakiyama, Kazutaka ^b   Hori, Masakazu ^b   Yoshida, Goro ^b   Hamaguchi, Masami ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish early life stages; Habitat complexity; Mesocosm; Predation; Seagrass; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; LATEOLABRAX; PAGRUS MAJOR; SERRANIDAE; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 36749078719     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2007.01466.x     Document Type: Article

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