Relative importance of coral cover, habitat complexity and diversity in determining the structure of reef fish communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Komyakova, Valeriya ^a   Munday, Philip L ^a   Jones, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAGOON; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN;

EID: 84892654566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083178     Document Type: Article

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