Volume 63
Artificial Structures Facilitate Lionfish Invasion in Marginal Atlantic Habitats.
Authors
Smith, N.A.. and J.B. Shurin Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2010
Pages: 342-344
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty-Third Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: San Juan
Country: Puerto Rico
Abstract
Artificial structures can facilitate invasion of non-native, marine fouling species by providing unoccupied habitat for colonization (Ruiz et al. 2009, Sheehy and Vik 2010). Few studies have examined whether similar effects occur in mobile taxa like reef fishes, despite the widespread occurrence of artificial structures along the worlds coastlines (Bulleri 2005; Glasby and Connell 1999), and the critical importance of high-relief habitat to many reef fishes (e.g. Steele 1999).