Trophic relationships in a Mediterranean deep-sea fish community: Partition of food resources, dietary overlap and connections within the benthic boundary layer

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 241, Issue , 2002, Pages 41-55

  Carrassón, Maite ^a   Cartes, Joan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep sea ecology; Dietary overlap; Interaction prey predator; Resource partitioning; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING ECOLOGY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PREY SELECTION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

CATALAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALEPOCEPHALUS; ALEPOCEPHALUS ROSTRATUS; BATHYPTEROIS MEDITERRANEUS; CATAETYX; CATAETYX ALLENI; CHONDRICHTHYES; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; LEPIDION; LEPIDION LEPIDION; NETTASTOMA MELANURUM; PERACARIDA; PISCES; POLYACANTHONOTUS; POLYACANTHONOTUS RISSOANUS; PYROSOMIDA; SIPHONOPHORA (HYDROZOANS);

EID: 0037019907     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps241041     Document Type: Article

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