Fish responses to experimental fragmentation of seagrass habitat

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 644-652

  MacReadie, Peter I ^a,b   Hindell, Jeremy S ^c,e   Jenkins, Gregory P ^a,c   Connolly, Rod M ^d   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Victorian Marine Science Consortium   (Australia)

^c Marine and Freshwater Systems   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Arthur Rylah Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial seagrass; Disturbance; Edge effects; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Patchiness; Port Phillip Bay; Stigmatopora

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCHINESS; SEAGRASS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALISMATALES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ALISMATIDAE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE BIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

STIGMATOPORA;

EID: 65949083138     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01130.x     Document Type: Article

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