The role and importance of recruitment variability to a guild of tide pool fishes

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1928-1941

  Pfister, Catherine A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinocottus spp; Coexistence; Competition; Cottidae; Density dependence; Matrix models; Oligocottus spp; Recruitment; Sculpins; Temporal variability; Tide pool

Indexed keywords

FISH COMMUNITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; TIDE POOL; TIDE POOLS;

USA, WASHINGTON;

EID: 0030433614     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265796     Document Type: Article

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