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Filtering by: Advisor Hixon, Mark A. Committee Member Heppell, Selina Subject Coral reef fishes -- Ecology -- Bahamas

Effects of the invasive Pacific red lionfish Pterois volitans on native Atlantic coral-reef fish communities

Creator:

Albins, Mark A.

Abstract:

Predatory lionfishes (Pterois volitans and P. miles) were introduced to Florida waters during the mid to late 1980s, and eventually established self-sustaining breeding populations in the tropical western Atlantic. These invasive species are now widespread along the southeastern seaboard of the United States, across the Caribbean Sea, and in the...

Resource Type:

Dissertation