This book breaks new ground with the integration of geography, oceanography, plankton
and benthic biology, as well as fish, to present a comprehensive account of the ecology of …

Daytime sampling of mangrove and seagrass (Halophila/Halodule community) habitats
every 7 wk at Alligator Creek, Queensland, Australia, over a period of 13 mo (February 1985 …

Indigenous people have exploited the biota of mangrove waters for centuries, and fish and
shrimp are still one of the major products harvested from this habitat (Saenger et al., 1983) …

It is accepted that mangroves are important nursery areas for prawns and fish, including
some of major commercial importance, but little is known about how these mobilc animals …

The diets of fish from the tropical Embley Estuary in the eastern Gulf of Carpentaria,
Australia, were analysed with particular reference to piscivory and predation on juveniles of …

Twenty fish species accounted for> 96% of the catch by numbers in mangrove habitats in
Alligator Creek, in tropical Queensland, Australia. The timing of recruitment, residency …

We studied the fortnightly, seasonal and annual variation in abundance of postlarval and
juvenile Penaeus merguiensis in the Embley and Mission River estuaries (northeastern …

The two banana prawns Penaeus merguiensis and P. indicus are arguably the most
commercially important species of penaeid prawns in the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-West …

In the Embley River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, the largest catches of the commercially
important banana prawns, Penaeus merguiensis, were made on mangrove-lined, steeply …

Offshore catches of banana prawns, Penaeus merguiensis, are correlated with the extent of
mangrove forests. However, recent evaluation has questioned whether the apparent …