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SrivEMed: Habitat use of S. rivulatus in the Eastern Mediterranean
Citation
Pickholtz R., Kiflawi M., Friedlander A., Belmaker J., Habitat use of S. rivulatus in the Eastern Mediterranean. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/7862

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 invaded range, the Mediterranean Sea. Fish movement was studied through a continuous acoustic tracking system from 2013 to 2014 in stations along the Mediterranean Israeli coast.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Acoustic data, Acoustic tags, Acoustic telemetry, Acoustic Telemetry, Acoustic tracking, Biological invasions, Distributions, Herbivores, Herbivorous fish, Invasive species, Mediterranean ecosystems, Mediterranean Sea, Spatial distribution, Tracking, Tracking networks, MED, Eastern Mediterranean, MED, Israel, Mediterranean Region, Pisces, Siganus Forsskål, 1775, Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775

Geographical coverage
MED, Eastern Mediterranean [Marine Regions]
MED, Israel [Marine Regions]
Mediterranean Region [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 July 2014 - 1 July 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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