Food sources for the bivalve Corbicula japonica in the foremost fishing lakes estimated from stable isotope analysis

Fisheries Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-114

  Kasai, Akihide ^a   Toyohara, Haruhiko ^a   Nakata, Akiko ^a   Miura, Tsunehiro ^b   Azuma, Nobuyuki ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shimane Prefectural Inland Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bivalve; Brackish lake; Corbicula japonica; Food source; Particulate organic matter; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; CORBICULA; CORBICULA JAPONICA;

EID: 33645091658     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2006.01123.x     Document Type: Article

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