Indirect effects of an ectoparasite reduce successful establishment of a damselfish at settlement

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 586-594

  Grutter, Alexandra S ^a   Crean, Angela J ^a   Curtis, Lynda M ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^b   Warner, Robert R ^b   Mccormick, Mark I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Fish behaviour; Gnathiidae; Parasites; Pomacentridae; Recruitment; Settlement; Trait mediated indirect effects

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CORAL REEF; ECTOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOPOD; JUVENILE; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MORTALITY; OXYGEN; PERCIFORM; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

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

ANTHOZOA; GNATHIA; GNATHIIDAE; ISOPODA; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE; POMACENTRUS AMBOINENSIS;

EID: 79955490862     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01798.x     Document Type: Article

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