Habitat specialisation and the distribution and abundance of coral-dwelling gobies

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 152, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 227-239

  Munday, Philip L ^a   Jones, Geoffrey P ^a   Caley, M Julian ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acanthaster; Acropora; Gobiidae; Gobiodon; Habitat associations; Specialisation; Species abundances

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL GOBY; CORAL REEF; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MICROHABITAT; MICROHABITATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REEF FISH;

CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LIZARD ISLAND;

ACANTHASTER; ACANTHASTER PLANCI; ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; EUPHORBIA MILII VAR. SPLENDENS; GOBIIDAE; GOBIODON; GOBIODON AXILLARIS; GOBIODON HISTRIO; GOBIODON QUINQUESTRIGATUS; HISTRIO; KOEBERLINIA SPINOSA; PISCES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0030811793     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps152227     Document Type: Article

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