Gut content- and stable isotope-derived diets of four commercially and recreationally important fish species in two intermittently open estuaries

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 363-375

  Hadwen, Wade L ^a   Russell, Grant L ^a   Arthington, Angela H ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Dietary breadth; Fish diets; Food sources; Nitrogen; Organic matter

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DIET; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ACANTHOPAGRUS AUSTRALIS; CILIOPHORA; MUGIL CEPHALUS; PLATYCEPHALUS FUSCUS; SILLAGO CILIATA;

EID: 34247330493     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF06157     Document Type: Article

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