Lionfish invasion in nearshore waters of the Bahamas : an examination of the effects of artificial structures and invader versus native species colonization rates
Artificial structures can facilitate invasion of non-native marine epibiota by providing unoccupied habitat for colonization. Few studies have examined whether similar effects occur in mobile taxa like reef fishes, despite the widespread occurrence of anthropogenic structure in the world’s coastlin...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27242 |