Age specific food utilization and spatial distribution of the puffer, Takifugu niphobles, over an intertidal sand flat

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-318

  Yamahira, Kazunori ^a   Kikuchi, Taiji ^a   Nojima, Satoshi ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Callianassa japonica; Diet analysis; Foraging site; Habitat separation; Resource partitioning; Tidal fluctuation; Young and adult

Indexed keywords

TAKIFUGU NIPHOBLES; CALLIANASSA JAPONICA; DECAPODA;

AGE-SPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FORAGING; PUFFER; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; RESOURCE USE; SANDFLAT; TIDAL FLAT; TIDAL FLATS;

JAPAN, KYUSHU, TOMIOKA;

EID: 0029667759     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00003100     Document Type: Article

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