Changes in trophic level of Squatina guggenheim with increasing body length: Relationships with type, size and trophic level of its prey

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-52

  Vögler, Rodolfo ^a   Milessi, Andrés C ^b   Duarte, Luis O ^c  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAGDALENA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Angular angel shark; Feeding ecology; Marine food webs; Predator prey interactions; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISHERY SURVEY; FOOD WEB; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SIZE; SHARK; TROPHIC STATUS;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; PISCES; SQUATINA ARGENTINA; SQUATINIDAE;

EID: 58149168992     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-008-9387-x     Document Type: Article

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