Midwater fishes and shrimps as competitors and resource partitioning in low latitude oligotrophic ecosystems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 164, Issue , 1998, Pages 37-45

  Hopkins, Thomas L ^a   Sutton, Tracey T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decapods; Food web; Gulf of Mexico; Myctophids; Oceanic ecosystem; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032499044     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps164037     Document Type: Article

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