Behavioural overlap in six Caribbean labrid species: Intra- and interspecific similarities

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 71-81

  Martha, K ^a,b   Jones, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reef fishes; Discriminant function analysis; Halichoeres species; Ontogenetic shifts in behaviour; Species overlap; Thalassoma bifasciatum

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CORAL REEF; FISH; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ONTOGENY;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; HALICHOERES; HALICHOERES BIVITTATUS; HALICHOERES GARNOTI; HALICHOERES MACULIPINNA; HALICHOERES POEYI; HALICHOERES RADIATUS; LABRIDAE; PISCES; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM;

EID: 0036714778     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019675323053     Document Type: Article

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