Niche partitioning in the cestode communities of two elasmobranchs

Oikos

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-84

  Friggens, M M ^a,b   Brown, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FISH; FLATWORM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PARASITE;

CESTODA; ELASMOBRANCHII; LEUCORAJA; LEUCORAJA NAEVUS; UROBATIS; UROBATIS HALLERI; UROLOPHIDAE;

EID: 13444305477     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13275.x     Document Type: Article

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