The importance of mangroves, mud and sand flats, and seagrass beds as feeding areas for juvenile fishes in Chwaka Bay, Zanzibar: Gut content and stable isotope analyses

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1639-1661

  Lugendo, B R ^a,b   Nagelkerken, I ^b   Van Der Velde, G ^b,c   Mgaya, Y D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feeding areas; Habitat connectivity; Juvenile fishes; Mangroves; Seagrass beds; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; FEEDING GROUND; FISH; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; JUVENILE; MANGROVE; MUDFLAT; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

AFRICA; CHWAKA BAY; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR SOUTH AND CENTRAL;

ALGAE; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GERRES FILAMENTOSUS; GERRES OYENA; LETHRINUS LENTJAN; LUTJANUS FULVIFLAMMA; PELATES QUADRILINEATUS; PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SIGANUS SUTOR;

EID: 33845652275     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2006.01231.x     Document Type: Article

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