Energetic and ecological constraints on population density of reef fishes
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Rethinking ecological inference: density dependence in reef fishes
Craig W. Osenberg,* Colette M. St. Mary, Russell J. Schmitt, Sally J. Holbrook, Peter Chesson and Barbara Byrne Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8525, USA Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and the Coastal Research Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Section of Evolution and Eco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2186