Shelters and their use by fishes on fringing coral reefs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ménard, Alexandre ^a   Turgeon, Katrine ^a,b   Roche, Dominique G ^a,c   Binning, Sandra A ^a,c   Kramer, Donald L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84862643717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038450     Document Type: Article

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