Variability in relative importance of determinants of reef fish recruitment

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 304-310

  Shima, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Demographically open populations; Density dependence; Labrids; Postsettlement processes; Process variability; Recruitment limitation; Reef fish; Relative importance; Scales of observation

Indexed keywords

THALASSOMA HARDWICKE;

EID: 0032835080     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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