Variation in the presence and cause of density-dependent mortality in three species of reef fishes

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2416-2427

  Forrester, Graham E ^a,b   Steele, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Coryphopterus glaucofraenum; Coryphopterus nicholsii; Density dependence; Gobiidae; Lythrypnus dalli; Mortality; Population dynamics; Population regulation; Predation; Reef fishes; Temperate reefs

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MORTALITY; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATION; REEF;

ANTHOZOA; CORYPHOPTERUS GLAUCOFRAENUM; CORYPHOPTERUS NICHOLSII; GOBIIDAE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LYTHRYPNUS DALLI; PISCES; RHINOGOBIOPS NICHOLSII;

EID: 0033864942     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2416:VITPAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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