Topography as a determinant of search paths of fishes and mobile macrocrustacea on the sediment surface

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 285-286, Issue , 2003, Pages 235-249

  Burrows, Michael T ^a   Robb, Linda ^a   Nickell, Lois A ^a   Hughes, David J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epifauna; Search path; Sediment surface

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; EPIFAUNA; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GOBIIDAE; LESUEURIGOBIUS; LESUEURIGOBIUS FRIESII; LETHRINIDAE; NEPHROPS; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; PISCES; POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS;

EID: 0037433278     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(02)00530-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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