Contrasting patterns of resource utilization between juvenile estuarine predators: The influence of relative prey size and foraging ability on the ontogeny of piscivory

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 790-801

  Scharf, Frederick S ^a   Buckel, Jeffrey A ^b   Juanes, Francis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PISCIVORY; PREY SIZE; RESOURCE USE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW YORK BIGHT;

INVERTEBRATA; MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS; PISCES;

EID: 67649298039     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F09-030     Document Type: Article

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