Depth-Variable Settlement Patterns and Predation Influence on Newly Settled Reef Fishes (Haemulon spp., Haemulidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Jordan, Lance K B ^a,c   Lindeman, Kenyon C ^b   Spieler, Richard E ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MICROWAVE TELEMETRY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; FISH; HABITAT USE; HAEMULON AUROLINEATUM; HAEMULON FLAVOLINEATUM; HAEMULON STRIATUM; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PISCIVORE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREDATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FLORIDA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANTHOZOA; HAEMULIDAE; HAEMULON; HAEMULON AUROLINEATUM; HAEMULON FLAVOLINEATUM; HAEMULON STRIATUM; PISCES;

EID: 84871271930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050897     Document Type: Article

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