Patterns of food and microhabitat resource use by two benthic gobiid fishes

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-194

  Horinouchi, Masahiro ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acentrogobius spp.; Grain size selection experiment; Habitat preference; Habitat segregation; Removal experiment

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; GRAIN SIZE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE USE; TELEOST;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; LAKE HAMANA; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

ACENTROGOBIUS; GOBIIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 42549109094     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-007-9289-3     Document Type: Article

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