Interactions between habitat use and patterns of abundance in coral-dwelling fishes of the genus Gobiodon

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 355-369

  Munday, Philip L ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gobiidae; Habitat specialisation; Log linear modelling; Multiple regression; Papua New Guinea; Rarity; Resource selection ratios

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; HABITAT USE; ICHTHYOFAUNA;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

GOBIODON; GOBIODON HISTRIO; GOBIODON QUINQUESTRIGATUS; GOBIODON RIVULATUS;

EID: 0033880942     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007689314926     Document Type: Article

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