Evidence of large, local variations in recruitment and mortality in the small giant clam, Tridacna maxima, at Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1318-1326

  Black, Robert ^a   Johnson, Michael S ^a   Prince, Jane ^a   Brearley, Anne ^a   Bond, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

demographic variability; intertidal platforms; marine conservation; population density; size frequency distributions.

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DISTURBANCE; MARINE PARK; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROCKY SHORE; SHORELINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURNOVER;

AUSTRALIA; NINGALOO REEF; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BIVALVIA; TRIDACNA MAXIMA;

EID: 80455131351     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF11093     Document Type: Article

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