Abundance, spatial distribution, and size structure of populations of Oreaster reticulatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) on sand bottoms

Agriculture & Biology

• Halodule wrightii 100%
• Asteroidea 75%
• Echinodermata 72%
• population structure 54%
• sand 52%
• spatial distribution 51%
• Thalassia testudinum 46%
• food availability 31%
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 28%
• Caribbean Sea 22%
• habitats 17%
• reproductive behavior 17%
• food quality 15%
• early development 14%
• water 12%
• foraging 12%
• color 9%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• size structure 72%
• seagrass 67%
• spatial distribution 42%
• sand 37%
• reproductive behavior 30%
• food 28%
• habitat 25%
• wave action 24%
• asteroid 21%
• occupation 19%
• shallow water 17%
• deep water 17%
• turbulence 15%
• resource 11%
• sea 11%