Diel Feeding Patterns of Red Snapper on Artificial Reefs in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1186-1193

  Ouzts, Allyson Clair ^a   Szedlmayer, Stephen T ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL REEF; BODY SIZE; DIEL VARIATION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR;

GULF OF MEXICO;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LUTJANUS CAMPECHANUS; STOMATOPODA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242569374     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-085     Document Type: Article

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