Resource distribution influences positive edge effects in in a seagrass fish

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2013-2021

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Victorian Marine Science Consortium   (Australia)

^c ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d Marine and Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial seagrass; Ecological flow; Edge effects; Food supplementation; Habitat fragmentation; Patchiness; Pipefish; Resource distribution model; Spillover; Stigmatopora argus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EDGE EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEAGRASS; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SEA; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANTS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

CRUSTACEA; STIGMATOPORA ARGUS;

EID: 77954618862     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1890.1     Document Type: Article

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