Diet comparison of four ray species (Raja clavata, Raja brachyura, Raja montagui and Leucoraja naevus) caught along the Portuguese continental shelf

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-114

  Farias, Inês ^a   Figueiredo, Ivone ^a   Moura, Teresa ^a   Gordo, Leonel Serrano ^b   Neves, Ana ^b   Serra Pereira, Bárbara ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Dietary composition; Elasmobranch fish; Feeding ecology; Ontogenetic dietary shift; Ray; Skate

Indexed keywords

DIET; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BRACHYURA; LEUCORAJA NAEVUS; OSTEICHTHYES; RAJA BRACHYURA; RAJA CLAVATA; RAJA MONTAGUI;

EID: 33745488626     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: 17652952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/alr:2006010     Document Type: Article

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