Community Dynamics of Fish Assemblages on Mid-Shelf and Outer-Shelf Coral Reefs in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Community Dynamics of Fish Assemblages on Mid-Shelf and Outer-Shelf Coral Reefs in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Offshore coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) are unique model systems for examining the mechanisms structuring reef fish communities due to their substantial geographic isolation, and the presence of replicate experimental units of both low (mid-shelf) and high coral diversity (shelf-edge) reefs...

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Main Authors: Lynne S. Wetmore, Michael A. Dance, Ronald L. Hill, Jay R. Rooker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
reef fish
Flower Garden Banks
Stetson Bank
Sonnier Bank
assemblage structure
recruitment
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.00152/full

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