The feeding ecology of larval Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) in the California Current region: An updated approach using a combined OPC/MOCNESS to estimate prey biovolume

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 34-48

  Cass Calay, Shannon L ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet composition; Gut content analysis; MOCNESS; Optical particle counter

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISH; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; PREY AVAILABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; COTTONTAIL RABBIT PAPILLOMAVIRUS; MERLUCCIUS; MERLUCCIUS PRODUCTUS; REXEA SOLANDRI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037273047     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2003.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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