Reef fish diversity components as indicators of cumulative effects in a highly impacted fringe reef

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 766-772

  González Sansón, Gaspar ^a   Aguilar, Consuelo ^a  

^a Center of Marine Bioproducts   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cumulative effects; Diversity; Reef fish assemblages

Indexed keywords

CORRELATIVE ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; INTERACTIVE MODELS; REEF FISHES; STATIONARY POINTS; THREE ZONES; WAVE ACTIONS; WAVE STRESS;

FISH; MEATS;

REEFS;

BIOINDICATOR; CENSUS; DIVERSITY INDEX; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FISH; FRINGING REEF; HABITAT TYPE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLYCHAETE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPONGE; WAVE ACTION;

CIUDAD DE LA HABANA; CUBA; HAVANA;

ALGAE; POLYCHAETA; SABELLIDA;

EID: 75349110578     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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