Social organisation and competition for refuges and nest sites in Coryphopterus nicholsii (Gobiidae), a temperate protogynous reef fish

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 401-411

  Kroon, Frederieke J ^a,c   De Graaf, Martin ^b   Liley, N Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Centre for Rainforest Studies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviour; Home range; Resource defence; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CORAL REEF; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PERCIFORM; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TERRITORIALITY;

CORYPHOPTERUS NICHOLSII;

EID: 0034063368     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007600728267     Document Type: Article

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