Spatially correlated recruitment of a marine predator and its prey shapes the large-scale pattern of density-dependent prey mortality

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1054-1065

  White, J Wilson ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalopholis fulva; Coral reef fish; Density dependence; Habitat complexity; Inverse density dependence; Metacommunity; Metapopulation; Predation; Recruitment; Thalassoma bifasciatum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; LARVAL TRANSPORT; METAPOPULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PERCIFORM; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

ANTHOZOA; CEPHALOPHOLIS FULVA; EPINEPHELINAE; PISCES; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM;

EID: 34848897607     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01098.x     Document Type: Article

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