Ecological determinants of recruitment to populations of a temperate reef fish, Trachinops caudimaculatus (Plesiopidae)

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 502-509

  Hunt, Taylor L ^a   Ford, John R ^b   Swearer, Stephen E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

conspecifics; habitat complexity; hulafish; Port Phillip Bay; Victoria; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; BIOINDICATOR; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FOOD; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT TYPE; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MICROHABITAT; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REEF; SHELTER; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

PLESIOPIDAE; TRACHINOPS;

EID: 79957596461     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF10262     Document Type: Article

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