Environmental factors affecting large-bodied coral reef fish assemblages in the Mariana Archipelago

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Richards, Benjamin L ^a,c   Williams, Ivor D ^b   Vetter, Oliver J ^b   Williams, Gareth J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CARANX MELAMPYGUS; CARCHARHINUS AMBLYRHYNCHOS; CHEILINUS UNDULATES; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN POPULATION DENSITY; LARGE BODIED CORAL REEF FISH; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUTJANUS BOHAR; MACOLOR; MARIANA ARCHIPELAGO; NASO HEXACANTHUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SCARUS RUBROVIOLACEUS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY; TIAENODON OBESUS; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE ENERGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857543582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031374     Document Type: Article

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