Use of bone and otolith measures for size-estimation of fish in predator-prey studies

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 328-336

  Tarkan, Ali Serhan ^a   Gürsoy Gaygusuz, Çiǧdem ^b   Gaygusuz, Özcan ^a   Acipinar, Hasan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cyprinids; Diet analysis; Piscivorous predators; Prey size estimation

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; BODY SIZE; BONE; CYPRINID; DIET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOMETRY; OTOLITH; PREY SIZE;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

ALBURNUS; BLICCA BJOERKNA; CARASSIUS GIBELIO; CHALCALBURNUS CHALCOIDES; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINUS CARPIO; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; LEUCISCUS BORYSTHENICUS; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SCARDINIUS ERYTHROPHTHALMUS; TINCA; VIMBA; VIMBA VIMBA;

EID: 36049019275     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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