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Unconstrained by the clock? Plasticity of diel activity rhythm in a tropical reef fish, Siganus lineatus

Date

Authors

Bathgate (previously Fox), Rebecca

Bellwood, David

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

1.In studies of an organism's functional ecology, key behavioural traits such as foraging periodicity are assumed to be uniform across the species. In particular, the fundamental division between diurnal and nocturnal activity patterns is usually assumed

Keywords

Keywords: acoustic imagery; adaptation; biological rhythm; coral reef; diel variation; ecosystem function; feeding behavior; functional change; niche partitioning; nocturnal activity; ontogeny; perciform; periodicity; timescale; underwater camera; Australia; Coral Acoustic telemetry; Adaptive foraging; Biological rhythm; Chronoecology; Coral reef; Facultative nocturnal herbivore; Rabbitfish; Temporal niche partitioning

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62694

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Functional Ecology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01874.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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