Small and large anemonefishes can coexist using the same patchy resources on a coral reef, before habitat destruction
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Small and large anemonefishes can coexist using the same patchy resources on a coral reef, before habitat destruction
1. According to meta-population models, a superior competitor and a superior disperser can coexist in a patchy environment. The two anemonefishes, a large aggressive Amphiprion clarkii Bennett and a small less-aggressive A. perideraion Bleeker, use the same host anemone Heteractis crispa Ehrenberg on a coral reef, Okinawa, Japan, where most of the hosts disappeared after the coral bleaching in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Ecology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0021-8790,1365-2656
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00649.x