Selective foraging behaviour of basking sharks on zooplankton in a small-scale front

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6684, 1998, Pages 460-464

  Sims, David W ^a   Quayle, Victoria A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PLANKTIVORE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0032482359     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/30959     Document Type: Article

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