Interactions between marine predators: Dolphin food intake is related to number of sharks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 240, Issue , 2002, Pages 267-271

  Acevedo Gutiérrez, Alejandro ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphins; Carcharhinus falciformis; Feeding ecology; Food intake; Foraging; Inter specific interactions; Silky sharks; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; PREDATOR; SHARK;

CARCHARHINUS; CARCHARHINUS FALCIFORMIS; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037068766     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps240267     Document Type: Article

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