Can I read Resource control by territorial male cichlid fish in Lake Malawi on EtoBox?

Resource control by territorial male cichlid fish in Lake Malawi by Martin. J. Genner; George. F. Turner; Stephen. J. Hawkins is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Resource control by territorial male cichlid fish in Lake Malawi about?

1. The rocky habitat communities of Lake Malawi contain a high diversity of ecologically similar, predominantly herbivorous, cichlid fish species. How so many species can coexist is still unknown. 2. Adult males of the majority of these species hold permanent territories which form dense multispecies mosaics across the shores. 3. The study examined six coexisting species of cichlids from the rocky habitat where males are known to control access to the algal food resources within their territorial space. These included four sibling species of the __Pseudotropheus__ (__Tropheops__) species complex, which are specialized epilithic algal herbivores, and two sibling species of the trophically more generalist __P__. (__Maylandia__) species complex which feed upon both epilithic algae and plankton. 4. The hypotheses that both intraspecific and interspecific territoriality occur in these communities and that interspecific aggression initiated by territorial males is preferentially directed at species with the most similar diets to their own were tested. 5. It was found that males preferred to exclude conspecific intruders, while they tolerated intruders with different diets to their own. A

Who reads Resource control by territorial male cichlid fish in Lake Malawi?

Author

Martin. J. Genner; George. F. Turner; Stephen. J. Hawkins

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley; JSTOR (ISSN 0021-8790)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)