Effects of alternate reef states on coral reef fish habitat associations

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 421-429

  Lecchini, David ^a,b   Carassou, Laure ^b   Frédérich, Bruno ^c   Nakamura, Yohei ^d   Mills, Suzanne C ^a   Galzin, René ^a  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Rangiroa atoll; Settlement

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ATOLL; FISH; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; ONTOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

RANGIROA; TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84860364966     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9958-0     Document Type: Article

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