Bypassing the abyssal benthic food web: Macrourid diet in the eastern North Pacific inferred from stomach content and stable isotopes analyses

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2644-2654

  Drazen, Jeffrey C ^a   Popp, Brian N ^a   Choy, C Anela ^a   Clemente, Tara ^a   De Forest, Lisa ^a   Smith Jr , Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL ZONE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; DECADAL VARIATION; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD WEB; GADOID; NEKTON; PHYTODETRITUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; CORYPHAENOIDES ARMATUS; CORYPHAENOIDES YAQUINAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HOLOTHUROIDEA; MACROURIDAE; PISCES; POLYCHAETA; PROTANKYRA;

EID: 55749111904     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.6.2644     Document Type: Article

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