Diet and seasonal prey capture rates in the Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum L.)

Marine Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 313-325

  Tsounis, Georgios ^a   Rossi, Sergio ^b   Laudien, Jürgen ^a   Bramanti, Lorenzo ^c   Fernández, Neus ^b   Gili, Josep Maria ^b   Arntz, Wolf ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PREY CAPTURE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIACEA; BIVALVIA; COPEPODA; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; CRUSTACEA; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646494166     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-0220-1     Document Type: Article

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