The effect of natural variation in substrate architecture on the survival of juvenile bicolor damselfish

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 129-141

  Nemeth, Richard S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Mortality schedule; Pomacentridae; Predation risk; Prey refuges; Recruitment; Stegastes partitus

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; FISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MORTALITY; PREDATION; SUBSTRATE;

EID: 0031691818     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007402104047     Document Type: Article

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