Precision of ingestion time and evacuation predictors for individual prey in stomachs of predatory fishes

Fisheries Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-22

  Andersen, Niels G ^a   Beyer, Jan E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mechanistic model of gastric evacuation; Predatory gadoids; Variability of gastric evacuation rate; Variability of initial prey body mass; Variance derivations

Indexed keywords

GADIFORMES; GADUS MORHUA; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; PISCES; POLLACHIUS; POLLACHIUS VIRENS;

EID: 44649179501     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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