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| | Inter Research » MEPS » v183 » p87-94 |
 | | Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan |
 | | ABSTRACT: The effects of changes in the structural complexity of a seagrass Zostera marina habitat on the densities of juveniles of 3 gobiid fishes, Pterogobius zonoleucus, Chaenogobius heptacanthus and Chasmichthys gulosus, were investigated by field experimentation at Moroiso and Aburatsubo Bays, Miura Peninsula, Japan. |
 | | Following seagrass manipulation, involving reduction of leaf heights and shoot densities as well as complete removal of seagrass, juvenile densities of all 3 gobiids were found to be higher in those quadrats with sparser or shorter seagrass, the abundance in the seagrass-cleared quadrat always being greater than that in the control. |
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