The relative importance of processes affecting recruitment of two temperate reef fishes

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 129-145

  Steele, Mark A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Coryphopterus nicholsii; Gobies; Interacting processes, relative importance of; Lythrypnus dalli; Multifactorial experiments; Predation; Recruitment, facilitation of; Reef fish; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

BLACKEYE GOBY; BLUE-BANDED GOBY; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT; REEF FISH; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

CORYPHOPTERUS NICHOLSII; LYTHRYPNUS DALLI;

EID: 0030923188     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0129:TRIOPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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