Resource and habitat sharing by the stoplight parrotfish, Sparisoma viride, a Caribbean reef herbivore

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-91

  Van Rooij, Jules M ^a   De Jong, Edo ^a   Vaandrager, Frits ^a   Videler, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Food limitation; Scarids; Substrate use; Territoriality; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

SPARISOMA VIRIDE;

HERBIVOROUS FISH; REEF FISH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; STOPLIGHT PARROTFISH; TERRITORIALITY;

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES, BONAIRE;

EID: 0029669502     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00002381     Document Type: Article

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