Food and feeding habits of juvenile flounder platichthys flesus (L.), and turbot Scophthalmus maximus L. In the Aland archipelago, northern Baltic Sea

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 311-320

  Aarnio, Katri ^a   Bonsdorff, Erik ^a   Rosenback, Nina ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ba ltic Sea; feeding; flatfish; macrofauna; meiofauna; Platichthys; Scophthalmus

Indexed keywords

PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; SCOPHTHALMUS MAXIMUS;

DIET; FEEDING; FISH JUVENILE; FLOUNDER; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; JUVENILES; MEGAFAUNA; MEIOFAUNA; TURBOT;

BALTIC SEA, ALAND ARCHIPELAGO;

EID: 0030303359     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1385-1101(96)90798-4     Document Type: Article

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