Food habits of fishes in a seagrass bed on a fringing coral reef at Iriomote Island, southern Japan

Ichthyological Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-22

  Nakamura, Yohei ^a   Horinouchi, Masahiro ^a,b   Nakai, Tadaomi ^a,c   Sano, Mitsuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JICA/JOCV Jamaica Office   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Feeding ecology; Ontogenetic diet shift; Trophic guilds; Tropical seagrass fishes

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CRUSTACEA; HALOPHILA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038392905     PISSN: 13418998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s102280300002     Document Type: Article

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