Detritus as food for grazing fishes on coral reefs

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1596-1605

  Crossman, David J ^a   Choat, Howard J ^b   Clements, Kendall D ^a   Hardy, Tom ^b   McConochie, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DETRITUS; GRAZING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0035175382     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2001.46.7.1596     Document Type: Article

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