Temporal and spatial patterns in the recruitment of coral-reef fishes in Barbados

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 363, Issue , 2008, Pages 257-272

  Vallès, Henri ^a   Kramer, Donald L ^a   Hunte, Wayne ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Gobiidae; Habitat; Labridae; Pomacentridae; Rubble; Scaridae; Serranidae; Settlement; SMURF; Standard Monitoring Units of Recruitment of Fishes

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOMONITORING; CORAL REEF; LARVAL TRANSPORT; PERCIFORM; POST-SETTLEMENT PROCESS; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

ANTHOZOA; GOBIIDAE; LABRIDAE; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE; SCARIDAE; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 49449101826     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07432     Document Type: Article

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