Management implications of juvenile reef fish habitat preferences and coral susceptibility to stressors1

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 532-540

  Demartini, Edward E ^a   Anderson, Todd W ^b   Kenyon, Jean C ^c   Beets, James P ^d   Friedlander, Alan M ^e  

^a NOAA Fisheries   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching and sedimentation; Global warming; Hawai'i; Nursery habitat loss; Recruit reef fishes

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NURSERY GROUND; OVERFISHING; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES; SCARIDAE;

EID: 77952977846     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF09141     Document Type: Article

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