Refugees or ravenous predators: Detecting predation on new recruits to tropical estuarine nurseries

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-330

  Baker, Ron ^a,b   Sheaves, Marcus ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Gut content analysis; Minor piscivore; Nursery ground functioning; Refuge paradigm; Tropical Australia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DIET; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; NURSERY GROUND; PISCIVORE; PREDATION; REFUGE; REFUGEE; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AMBASSIDAE; PISCES; SILLAGINIDAE; SPARIDAE;

EID: 67651173011     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-008-9109-3     Document Type: Article

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