Comparative feeding ecology of four sympatric skate species off central California, USA (Environmental Biology of Fishes (2007) 80 (197-220) DOI: 10.1007/s10641-007-9241-6);Comparative feeding ecology of four sympatric skate species off central California, USA

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 80, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 197-220

  Bizzarro, Joseph J ^a   Robinson, Heather J ^a   Rinewalt, Christopher S ^a   Ebert, David A ^a  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathyraja kincaidii; Diet composition; Raja binoculata; Raja inornata; Raja rhina; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISH; FOOD WEB; SYMPATRY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BATHYRAJA; CEPHALOPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIIDAE; PISCES; RAJA BINOCULATA; RAJA INORNATA; RAJA RHINA;

EID: 34948870262     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-008-9428-5     Document Type: Erratum

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