Overlapping territory of a benthophagous fish, Goniistius zonatus (Teleostei: Cheilodactylidae)

Ecological Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 715-726

  Matsumoto, Kazunori ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benthivore; Body size; Cheilodactylidae; Food resource partitioning; Territory overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010378359     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00428.x     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. CLIFTON K. E. (1989) Territory sharing by the Caribbean striped parrotfish, Scarus iserti: patterns of resource abundance, group size and behaviour. Animal Behaviour 37: 90-103.
2. EBERSOLE J. P. (1977) The adaptive significance of interspecific territoriality in the reef fish Eupomacentrus leucostictus. Ecology 58: 914-920.
3. GILL F. B. & WOLF L. L. (1975) Economics of feeding territoriality in the golden-winged sunbird. Ecology 56: 333-345.
4. GROSS M. R. & MACMILLAN A. M. (1981) Predation and the evolution of colonial nesting in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 8: 163-174.
5. HIXON M. A., CARPENTER F. L. & PATTON D. C. (1983) Territory area, flower density, and time budgeting in hummingbirds: an experimental and theoretical analysis. American Naturalist 122: 366-391.
6. HORI M. (1991) Feeding relationships among cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika: effects of intra- and interspecific variations of feeding behavior on their coexistence. INTECOL Bulletin 19: 89-101.
7. ITZKOWITZ M. (1985) Aspects of the population dynamics and reproductive success in the permanently territorial beaugregory damselfish. Marine Behavioral Physiology 12: 57-69.
8. WITTENDERGER J. F. (1981). Animal Social Behavior. Duxbury Press, Boston.