Abundance, distribution, and territory areas of rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish species

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 615, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-68

  Sturmbauer, Christian ^a   Fuchs, Corinna ^a   Harb, Georg ^a   Damm, Elisabeth ^a   Duftner, Nina ^a,b   Maderbacher, Michaela ^a   Koch, Martin ^a   Koblmüller, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aulonocranus dewindti; Eastern Africa; Ecology; Fish community; Territorial behavior; Tropheus moorii; Variabilichromis moorii

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAKES; MEATS;

AULONOCRANUS DEWINDTI; EASTERN AFRICA; ECOLOGY; FISH COMMUNITY; TERRITORIAL BEHAVIOR; TROPHEUS MOORII; VARIABILICHROMIS MOORII;

FISH;

ABUNDANCE; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES INVENTORY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AULONOCRANUS DEWINDTI; CICHLIDAE; CYATHOPHARYNX FURCIFER; ERETMODUS CYANOSTICTUS; LOBOCHILOTES LABIATUS; OPHTHALMOTILAPIA VENTRALIS; PETROCHROMIS; PISCES; TROPHEUS MOORII; VARIABILICHROMIS MOORII;

EID: 53649090134     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9557-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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