Enhancing diet analyses of piscivorous fishes in the Northwest Atlantic through identification and reconstruction of original prey sizes from ingested remains

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 575-588

  Scharf, Frederick S ^a,b   Yetter, Richard M ^a   Summers, Adam P ^a   Juanes, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DIET; FISH; PISCIVORE; STOMACH CONTENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0031818099     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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