Genetic diversity loss associated to high mortality and environmental stress during the recruitment stage of a coral reef fish

Coral Reefs

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 399-404

  Pini, J ^a,b   Planes, S ^b   Rochel, E ^b   Lecchini, D ^b,c   Fauvelot, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (French Polynesia)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

Allelic richness; Coral reefs; Dascyllus aruanus; Environmental stress; Field experiments; Genetic diversity; Microsatellites; Overdominance

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORAL REEF; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

MOOREA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ANTHOZOA; DASCYLLUS ARUANUS; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 79955894037     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0718-6     Document Type: Article

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