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SrivAqab: Habitat use of S. rivulatus in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Citation
Pickholtz R., Kiflawi M., Friedlander A., Belmaker J., Habitat use of S. rivulatus in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/7861

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Description
The spatial ecology of an invasive herbivorous fish, the rivulated rabbitfish (Siganus rivulatus) in its native range, the Read Sea. Fish movement was studied through a continuous acoustic tracking system from 2013 to 2014 in stations along the Israeli part of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Acoustic data, Acoustic tags, Acoustic telemetry, Acoustic Telemetry, Acoustic tracking, Biological invasions, Distribution, Herbivores, Herbivorous fishes, Invasive species, Spatial distribution, Tracking, Tracking networks, Israel, ISW, Aqaba Gulf, ISW, Red Sea, Pisces, Siganus Forsskål, 1775, Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775

Geographical coverage
ISW, Aqaba Gulf [Marine Regions]
ISW, Red Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
10 October 2013 - 15 April 2015
Unknown

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Siganus Forsskål, 1775 [WoRMS]
Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Tel-Aviv University, moredata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Pickholtz, R.S.M. et al. (2018). Habitat utilization by an invasive herbivorous fish (Siganus rivulatus) in its native and invaded range. Biological Invasions 20(12): 3499-3512. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1790-4, more

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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2021-08-24
Information last updated: 2023-05-26
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