| Titre : | Diversity of juvenile fish assemblages in the pelagic waters of Lebanon (eastern Mediterranean) |
| Auteurs : | M. Bariche, Auteur ; R. Sadek, Auteur ; M. S. Al-Zein, Auteur ; M. El-Fadel, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Hydrobiologia (580 APR 1 2007) |
| Article en page(s) : | 109-115 |
| Résumé : | The opening of the Suez Canal resulted in the introduction of Indo-Pacific organisms (Lessepsian) to the eastern Mediterranean. Available information on the Levantine ichthyofauna concerns mainly necto-benthic species, while pelagic ones remain mostly uncharacterized. This paper presents a preliminary assessment of biodiversity and its temporal changes on the Lebanese coast (eastern Mediterranean) using species composition and abundance of pelagic communities as indicators. For this purpose, a total of 11,192 fishes, representing 32 species and |



