Effects of shelter and predators on reef fishes

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-79

  Steele, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coryphopterus nicholsii; Habitat preference; Lythrypnus dalli; Predation; Reef fishes; Shelter

Indexed keywords

ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION RISK; REEF; SHELTER;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SURVIVAL;

CORYPHOPTERUS NICHOLSII; LYTHRYPNUS DALLI;

EID: 0033620121     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(98)00127-0     Document Type: Article

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