The value of thethering fishes (winter flounder and tautog) as a tool for assessing predation rates

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 163, Issue , 1998, Pages 45-51

  Curran, Mary Carla ^a   Able, Kenneth W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BEAUFORT   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Predation; Prey behaviour; Prey Susceptibility; Tethering

Indexed keywords

PREDATION RATE; TAUTOG; TETHERING; WINTER FLOUNDER;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS; TAUTOGA ONITIS;

EID: 0032510545     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps163045     Document Type: Article

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