The relative importance of predation and competition in two reef fishes

Oecologia

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 222-232

  Steele, Mark A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; Predation; Reef fishes; Relative importance

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REEF FISH;

EID: 0031832649     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050511     Document Type: Article

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