Investigation of a subtidal fish community in a south-western Mediterranean s…

Marine coastal habitats are important as nurseries for numerous fish species (Biagi et al., 1998; F
elix-Hackradt et al., 2013). A large body of literature dealing with community composition, spatial and temporal variability, substrate use and mortality of fish recruits in inshore marine habitats is available for the western Mediterranean Sea (Garcia- Rubies and Macpherson, 1995; Macpherson et…