Limited flexibility in resource use in a coral reef grazer foraging on seasonally changing algal communities

Coral Reefs

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-122

  Afeworki, Y ^a,b   Bruggemann, J H ^c   Videler, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering   (Eritrea)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

Algae; Grazing; Resource selection; Scarus ferrugineus; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHOS; BIOENERGETICS; CARBONATE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FRINGING REEF; GRAZING; PERCIFORM; RESOURCE USE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SCARIDAE; SCARUS FERRUGINEUS;

EID: 79551682731     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-010-0682-6     Document Type: Article

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