It pays to be pushy: intracohort interference competition between two reef fishes.

Competition is often most intense between similar sized organisms that have similar ecological requirements. Many coral reef fish species settle preferentially to live coral at the end of their larval phase where they interact with other species that recruited to the same habitat patch at a similar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mark I McCormick, Christine J Weaver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3416846?pdf=render