Mortality of juvenile damselfish: Implications for assessing processes that determine abundance

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-50

  Schmitt, Russell J ^a   Holbrook, Sally J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance of species; Damselfish; Dascyllus; Density dependent mortality; Dynamics of species; Larval supply; Population regulation; Post settlement processes; Recruitment; Recruitment limitation; Relative importance; Settlement

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FISH; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; SCALE EFFECT;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; MOOREA;

ANIMALIA; CHROMIS CHROMIS; DASCYLLUS; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 0032919259     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0035:MOJDIF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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