Seasonal variation in guild structure of the Puget Sound demersal fish community

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 790-801

  Reum, Jonathan C P ^a   Essington, Timothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Diet overlap; Estuary; Flatfish; Food habits; Guild structure; Multivariate analysis; Puget Sound

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMERSAL FISH; DIETARY OVERLAP; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLATFISH; FOOD WEB; GUILD STRUCTURE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PISCIVORY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOMACH CONTENT;

NORTH AMERICA; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CITHARICHTHYS SORDIDUS; CITHARICHTHYS STIGMAEUS; GLYPTOCEPHALUS ZACHIRUS; INVERTEBRATA; MICROGADUS PROXIMUS; PARAPLAGUSIA BILINEATA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PODOTHECUS ACIPENSERINUS;

EID: 48749098843     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-008-9064-5     Document Type: Article

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