Dietary compositions of the sparid Acanthopagrus butcheri in three normally closed and variably hypersaline estuaries differ markedly

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 363-376

  Chuwen, Benjamin M ^a   Platell, Margaret E ^a   Potter, Ian C ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Composition; Diets; Diversity; Normally closed estuaries; Opportunism; Sparidae

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEOST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CULHAM INLET; HAMERSLEY INLET; STOKES INLET; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHOPAGRUS BUTCHERI; CHIRONOMIDAE; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; MOLLUSCA; POLYCHAETA; SPARIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 35448958435     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9134-0     Document Type: Article

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