Environmental determinants of coral reef fish diversity across several French Polynesian atolls

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 335, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 417-423

  Planes, Serge ^a,b   Lecchini, David ^a,b,c   Mellin, Camille ^c,d   Charton, José Garcia ^b   Harmelin Vivien, Mireille ^e   Kulbicki, Michel ^a,c   Mou Tham, Gérard ^a,c   Galzin, René ^a,b  

^a Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL   (France)

^b Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (France)

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

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coral reef fish; Environmental factors; Spatial distribution; Species richness

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FISH; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDER; SAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEP WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FRENCH POLYNESIA;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 84862845548     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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