Ecological processes underlying ontogenetic habitat shifts in a coral reef fish

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2227-2240

  Dahlgren, Craig P ^a,b   Eggleston, David B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Caribbean Marine Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Caging experiments; Epinephelus striatus; Growth rate; Habitat; Laurencia; Macroalgae; Nassau grouper; Ontogenetic; Optimization models; Predation risk; Refuge

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; HABITAT USE; MORTALITY RISK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033862524     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2227:EPUOHS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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