Recruitment of benthic organisms onto a planned artificial reef: Shifts in community structure one decade post-deployment

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 79-99

  Perkol Finkel, S ^a   Benayahu, Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Colonization; Community shift; Coral reefs; Planned artificial reefs; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MONITORING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURVEYS;

ARTIFICIAL REEFS (AR); BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BENTHIC ORGANISMS; NATURAL REEFS (NR);

REEFS;

ARTIFICIAL REEF; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT CREATION; RECRUITMENT; SUCCESSION;

AGE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISRAEL; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

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

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; DENDRONEPHTHYA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 4644307732     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2004.03.122     Document Type: Article

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