The influence of connectivity on richness and temporal variation of reef fishes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 587-597

  Belmaker, Jonathan ^a,b,c   Ziv, Yaron ^b   Shashar, Nadav ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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

Author keywords

Artificial reef; Connectivity; Coral reef; Fish assemblages; Island biogeography; Patchiness; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTIFICIAL REEF; CONNECTIVITY; CORAL REEF; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT; PATCHINESS; PERCID; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; APOGONIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 79953094416     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9588-0     Document Type: Article

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