Effects of habitat relocation on fish community structure- a case study

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1335-1345

  Polak, Omer ^a,c,d   Polak, Tal ^b   Shashar, Nadav ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial reef; Biodiversity; Community composition; Habitat contrast; Natural reef; Red sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTIFICIAL REEF; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RELOCATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84912053725     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: 15735133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-014-0223-1     Document Type: Article

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