Diel and habitat-dependent resource utilisation by deep-sea fishes at the Great Meteor seamount: Niche overlap and support for the sound scattering layer interception hypothesis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 244, Issue , 2002, Pages 219-233

  Fock, Heino O ^a   Matthiessen, Birte ^a   Zidowitz, Heike ^a   Westernhagen, Hein V ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bentho pelagic fishes; Hutchinson's rule; Permutation test; Seamounts; Sound scattering layer

Indexed keywords

DIEL VARIATION; DIET; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NICHE OVERLAP; RESOURCE USE;

(NORTHEAST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ANTIGONIA; ANTIGONIA CAPROS; CAPROIDAE; CAPROS APER; MACRORAMPHOSUS; PISCES; ZENOPSIS; ZENOPSIS CONCHIFER;

EID: 0037196037     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps244219     Document Type: Article

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