How are prey fishes of multiple meals evacuated from the stomach of a piscivorous fish?

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 219-234

  Andersen, N G ^a   Beyer, J E ^b  

^a Nordsocentret   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atlantic cod Gadus morhua; Double meals; Mass dependent model of gastric evacuation; Sandeel Ammodytes tobianus; Surface dependent cylinder model of gastric evacuation

Indexed keywords

AMMODYTES TOBIANUS; GADUS MORHUA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; PISCES;

EID: 34250830155     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01486.x     Document Type: Article

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