Mangroves and fringing reefs as nursery habitats for the endangered caribbean sea star oreaster reticulatus

Agriculture & Biology

• Ascidiacea 16%
• Asteroidea 85%
• Belize 18%
• biomass 8%
• Caribbean Sea 100%
• Central America 14%
• coasts 10%
• color 16%
• corals 14%
• demographic statistics 12%
• habitats 40%
• morphs 13%
• Panama 15%
• Porifera 15%
• reefs 73%
• sampling 4%
• sand 46%
• sediments 12%
• species recruitment 12%
• stomach 11%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• biomass 8%
• Central America 16%
• coast 8%
• color morph 24%
• composition of population 22%
• coral 12%
• distribution 4%
• fringing reef 93%
• habitat 42%
• mangrove 68%
• reef 11%
• sampling 7%
• sand 16%
• sand flat 39%
• sea 37%
• seagrass 30%
• sediment 6%
• sponge 14%