Foraging ecology of the early life stages of four sympatric shark species

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 268, Issue , 2004, Pages 245-264

  Bethea, Dana M ^a,b   Buckel, Jeffrey A ^a   Carlson, John K ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apalachicola Bay; Carcharhinus brevipinna; Carcharhinus isodon; Carcharhinus limbatus; Competition; Foraging ecology; Prey size predator size relationships; Resource partitioning; Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SIZE; SHARK;

CARCHARHINUS; CARCHARHINUS BREVIPINNA; CARCHARHINUS ISODON; CARCHARHINUS LIMBATUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; ISODON; RHIZOPRIONODON; RHIZOPRIONODON TERRAENOVAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 1842473859     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps268245     Document Type: Article

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