The Mangrove Nursery Paradigm Revisited: Otolith Stable Isotopes Support Nursery-to-Reef Movements by Indo-Pacific Fishes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kimirei, Ismael A ^a,b   Nagelkerken, Ivan ^a,c   Mgaya, Yunus D ^d   Huijbers, Chantal M ^a,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TANZANIA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CORAL REEF; LETHRINUS HARAK; LETHRINUS LENTJAN; LUTJANUS FULVIFLAMMA; MANGROVE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OTOLITH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEAGRASS; SPECIES HABITAT;

ALISMATIDAE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVICENNIA; CARBON ISOTOPES; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; INDIAN OCEAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PERCIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

ANTHOZOA; LETHRINUS HARAK; LUTJANUS FULVIFLAMMA; PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84878909574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066320     Document Type: Article

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