The Community Structure of Coral Reef Fishes
The American Naturalist1981Vol. 117(4), pp. 476–495
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G. R. V. Anderson, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich, Jonathan Roughgarden, Barry C. Russell, F. H. Talbot
Abstract
Observations of the community of chaetodontid fishes at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reefs are consistent with the hypothesis that it is structured in ways similar to terrestrial vertebrate communities. Our data do not support the need for alternative hypotheses centered on larval habitat preferences and stochastic recruitment. Broad geographic patterns of chaetodontids in the Pacific are similar to those seen in terrestrial vertebrates.
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