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The effect of territorial adult pomacentrid fishes on the recruitment and survival of juveniles on patches of coral rubble
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Recruitment of juvenile P. wardi, and survival of experimentally added juvenile P.'s wardi were both greater in patches from which all adult pomacentrids had been removed than in patches with undisturbed adult populations, according to an experiment on patches of rubble on reefs of the Great Barrier Reef.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.The article was published on 1976-11-01. It has received 71 citations till now.read more
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Recruitment and the local dynamics of open marine populations
TL;DR: It is argued that demographic theory suggests that, except under restrictive and unlikely conditions, recruitment must influence local population density to some extent, and the question as to whether the size of a particular population is limited by recruitment is misguided.
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Coexistence of coral reef fishes — a lottery for living space
TL;DR: It is argued that reef fishes are preadapted for forming inter-specific lotteries for living space if several species with similar requirements occur together, and may explain the typically high within-site diversity found in them.
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The influence of habitat complexity on postrecruitment processes in a temperate reef fish population
TL;DR: Bloch et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effect of topographic complexity on survivorship of adults of Forsterygion varium and found that high-complexity habitats had a higher mortality rate compared to low complexity habitats.
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Does increased habitat complexity reduce predation and competition in coral reef fish assemblages
TL;DR: Whether habitat complexity reduces predation and competition may depend on several key factors, such as the availability of appropriate shelter, behavioral attributes of interactors, and developmental stage of prey/inferior competitors.
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The social organization of fish shoals: a test of the predictive power of laboratory experiments for the field
TL;DR: Predictions based on experiments in captivity regarding p for conspecifics, individuals of similar body length and unparasitized fish were highly consistent with field observations on free‐ranging shoals whereas p for familiar conspecies and kin remain to be conclusively demonstrated in the field.
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Interspecific Aggression and its Relevance to the Concept of Territoriality in Reef Fishes
TL;DR: Results demonstrated that territorial males of E. planifrons not only recognize different species of reef fishes, but also that they possess serial territories whose areas of defense vary depending on the particular species of intruder present at the time.
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Effects of algal grazing and aggressive behaviour of the fishes Pomacentrus lividus and Acanthurus sohal on coral-reef ecology
TL;DR: Aggressive behaviour of the fishes Pomacentrus lividus Bl.
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Interspecific territoriality in a pomacentrid reef fish, Pomacentrus flavicauda Whitley
TL;DR: The effectiveness of the agonistic behavior was indicated when, following the removal of 6 specimens of P. flavicauda, there was an increase in algal-feeding fishes seen within their territories, and implications, of these results for out understanding of interspecific territoriality are discussed.
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Patterns of use of space in a guild of territorial reef fishes
TL;DR: Analysis of patterns of use of space as shown by the antecedent and subsequent histories of sites chosen by 43 new colonists, and sites vacated through the loss of 34 residents on the rubble patches suggests that the 3 species do not differ in their requirements for space on rubble patches, and that they are in competition for a short supply of such space.