Individual-based modeling of an artificial reef fish community: Effects of habitat quantity and degree of refuge

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 3895-3909

  Campbell, Matthew D ^a   Rose, Kenneth ^a   Boswell, Kevin ^a,b   Cowan, James ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial reefs; Bioenergetics; Competition; IBM; Movement; Predation prey halos; Red snapper

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL REEFS; BIOENERGETICS; IBM; MOVEMENT; PREDATION PREY HALOS; RED SNAPPER;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; FISH; FISHERIES;

REEFS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCIFORM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

CHROMIS; LAGODON; LAGODON RHOMBOIDES; LUTJANUS CAMPECHANUS; MICROPOGONIAS; POMATOMUS SALTATRIX;

EID: 80755125839     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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