Larval sand lance (Ammodytes sp.) in the diet of small juvenile wolffish (Anarhichas spp.): Predatory interactions in frontal water masses off western Greenland

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1759-1767

  Munk, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; ONTOGENY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SIZE SELECTION;

DAVIS STRAIT; GREENLAND;

AMMODYTES; AMMODYTES MARINUS; AMMODYTES SP.; AMPHIPODA; ANARHICHAS; ANARHICHAS LUPUS; ANARHICHAS MINOR; COPEPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036881709     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f02-147     Document Type: Article

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