Lethal effects of habitat degradation on fishes through changing competitive advantage

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1744, 2012, Pages 3899-3904

  McCormick, Mark I ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral bleaching; Fish community; Habitat degradation; Interference competition; Interspecific competition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; SPECIALIST;

EID: 84865396280     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0854     Document Type: Article

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