Patterns, causes and consequences of regional variation in the ecology and life history of a reef fish

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 394-403

  Ruttenberg, Benjamin I ^a   Haupt, Alison J ^a   Chiriboga, Angel I ^b   Warner, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Demography; Gal pagos Islands; Latitudinal gradient; Life history tradeoff; Reproductive output

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; FISH; LIFE HISTORY; REEF; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENT; OBSERVATION; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENT; OBSERVATION; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE; STEGASTES BEEBEI;

EID: 26044470419     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0150-0     Document Type: Article

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