Do ectoparasites determine cleaner fish abundance? Evidence on two spatial scales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 263, Issue , 2003, Pages 189-196

  Cheney, Karen L ^a   Côté, Isabelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cleaning symbiosis; Gobiosoma spp.; Reef fish community structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLEANER FISH; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; ECTOPARASITE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SCALE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; ELACATINUS; GOBIIDAE; GOBIOSOMA; GOBIOSOMA GENIE; ISOPODA; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 0347659036     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps263189     Document Type: Article

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