Reef fish community biomass and trophic structure changes across shallow to upper- Mesophotic reefs in the mesoamerican barrier reef, Caribbean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Andradi Brown, Dominic A ^a,b   Gress, Erika ^b   Wright, Georgina ^b   Exton, Dan A ^b   Rogers, Alex D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Hope House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CARIBBEAN; CORAL; DIVER; HERBIVORE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; LOCUS CERULEUS; PISCIVORE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIDEORECORDING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84976586566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156641     Document Type: Article

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