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Environmental and biogeographic factors influencing ichthyofaunal diversity: Indian River Lagoon

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Date Issued:
1995
Title: Environmental and biogeographic factors influencing ichthyofaunal diversity: Indian River Lagoon.
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Name(s): Gilmore, R. G., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1995
Publisher: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Extent: 19 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3172869 (digitool), FADT3172869 (IID), fau:5699 (fedora)
Note(s): Long term quantitative studies of particular fish communities within the Indian River Lagoon reveal high species richness in specific habitats. Estuarineocean inlet seagrass meadow fish faunas are ontogenetically coupled with rich nearby ocean reef fish communities and support the richest estuarine ichthyofauna (214 species from seagrasses, 282 from ocean inlets). A biogeographic analysis reveals that freshwater, seagrass and mangrove fish communities have a heterogeneous mix of species with at least 10 different faunal distributional tracks represented.
This manuscript is available at http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/bms and may be cited as: Gilmore, R. G. (1995). Environmental and biogeographic factors influencing ichthyofaunal diversity: Indian River Lagoon. Bulletin of Marine Science, 57(1), 153-170.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1101.
Subject(s): Indian River (Fla.: Lagoon)
Fish surveys
Biodiversity
Environmental geomorphology
Biogeography
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172869
Restrictions on Access: ©1995 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Host Institution: FAU