Spectral sensitivity of larval and juvenile coral reef fishes: Implications for feeding in a variable light environment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 214, Issue , 2001, Pages 267-277

  Job, Suresh D ^a   Shand, Julia ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apogonidae; Chromatic action spectrum; Colour vision; Feeding Behaviour; Ontogeny; Pomacentridae

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LIGHT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTHOZOA; APOGON; APOGON COMPRESSUS; APOGONIDAE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE; POMACENTRUS AMBOINENSIS; PREMNAS BIACULEATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035953410     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps214267     Document Type: Article

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