Grazing pressure on coral reefs decreases across a wide depth gradient in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 399, Issue , 2010, Pages 69-80

  Brokovich, Eran ^a,b   Ayalon, Inbal ^a,c   Einbinder, Shai ^a,b   Segev, Nitzan ^a,b   Shaked, Yonathan ^a,c   Genin, Amatzia ^a,b,c   Kark, Salit ^b   Kiflawi, Moshe ^a,d  

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

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Israel National Monitoring Program at the Gulf of Eilat   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Benthic algae; Deep reefs; Depth gradient; Gulf of aqaba; Herbivore fish; Technical diving

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMASS; CORAL; CORAL REEF; FOOD CHAIN; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 76249097305     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08354     Document Type: Article

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