Incubation period and indicators of the faunal assemblage

Kizhakudan, Joe K and Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe and Remya, L (2023) Incubation period and indicators of the faunal assemblage. In: Course Manual on Fundamentals of Artificial Reefs for Improving Marine Fisheries in India. CMFRI Training Manual Series (32). ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 71-77.

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Abstract

The ARs act as source of food, shelter, refugia, stopover, attachment surface or substratum and proximity to the ecosystem community and food web. However, the actual cues which lead the multitude of species towards the AR structures are still under investigation. Many attribute it to the visual cues, the height of the structures, the assembly of the structures, acoustic signals, light and fluorescence, chemical cues and the community structures and assembly itself. The age of the reef can determine the type of communities in an AR site. The initial communities rapidly change during colonization and succession.

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