Comparative resource use by juvenile parrotfishes in the Florida keys

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 177, Issue , 1999, Pages 177-187

  Overholtzer, Karen L ^a,b   Motta, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coral reef fish; Foraging behavior; Habitat use; Herbivory; Scaridae

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FISH; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; JUVENILE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA KEYS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; HAEMULIDAE; HALIMEDA OPUNTIA; LABRIDAE; OPUNTIA; PERCIFORMES; POMACENTRIDAE; SCARIDAE; SCARUS COERULEUS; SPARISOMA AUROFRENATUM; SPARISOMA VIRIDE;

EID: 0033545396     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps177177     Document Type: Article

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