Regulation of local populations of a coral reef fish via joint effects of density- and number-dependent mortality

Oecologia

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 58-65

  Shima, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Number dependence; Population regulation; Post settlement mortality; Reef fish

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MORTALITY;

FRENCH POLYNESIA;

ANTHOZOA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES; THALASSOMA HARDWICKE; THALASSOMA HARDWICKII;

EID: 0035025679     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000486     Document Type: Article

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