Fish communities and juvenile habitat associated with non-native Rhizophora mangle L. in Hawai‘i

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 803, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 209-224

  Goecke, Stacia D ^a   Carstenn, Susan M ^a  

^a HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Juvenile abundance; Kuhlia xenura; Landscape development intensity index; Mugil cephalus; Stream mouth estuaries

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ABUNDANCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; HABITAT TYPE; INDEX METHOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANGROVE; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OAHU; UNITED STATES;

KUHLIA XENURA; LUTJANUS FULVUS; MUGIL CEPHALUS; MULLOIDICHTHYS FLAVOLINEATUS; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 85018511644     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3182-7     Document Type: Article

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