Grazing by a small fish affects the early stages of a post-settlement stony coral

Coral Reefs

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-51

  Christiansen, N A ^a   Ward, S ^a   Harii, S ^b   Tibbetts, I R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blenniidae; Coral recruitment; Great Barrier Reef; Mortality; Salarias fasciatus

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CORAL; DENTITION; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; JUVENILE; PERCIFORM; POLYP; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BLENNIIDAE; BLENNIOIDEI; SALARIAS FASCIATUS; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 59449108198     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-008-0429-9     Document Type: Article

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