Estimating the rate of biological introductions: Lessepsian fishes in the Mediterranean

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1134-1141

  Belmaker, Jonathan ^a,b   Brokovich, Eran ^a,c   China, Victor ^a,b   Golani, Daniel ^c   Kifawi, Moshe ^a,b  

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

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colonization; Coral reef fishes; Hierarchical Bayes; Invasion; Nonindigenons species; State space modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; CORAL REEF; FISH; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; SAMPLING; SPECIES POOL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MARKOV CHAINS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 63849158577     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1904.1     Document Type: Article

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