Habitat plasticity in native Pacific red lionfish Pterois volitans facilitates successful invasion of the Atlantic

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 506, Issue , 2014, Pages 243-253

  Cure, Katherine ^a,d   Mcllwain, Jennifer L ^a,b   Hixon, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Habitat use; Invasion success; Lionfish distribution; Native density; Western Pacific

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CORAL REEF; FACILITATION; FISH; HABITAT USE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84903287336     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10789     Document Type: Article

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