High-quality habitat and facilitation ameliorate competitive effects of prior residents on new settlers

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-130

  Adam, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Density dependent growth; Fish; Habitat selection; Labroides dimidiatus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORAL REEF; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; JUVENILE; PERCIFORM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; REMEDIATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEF; PERCIFORMES; POLYNESIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEFS; PERCIFORMES; POLYNESIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANTHOZOA; LABROIDES DIMIDIATUS;

EID: 79954416889     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1826-7     Document Type: Article

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