Sources of nutrition supporting juvenile penaeid prawns in an Australian dry tropics estuary

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 949-959

  Abrantes, Kátya ^a   Sheaves, Marcus ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Diet; Estuaries; Penaeidae; Stable isotope analysis.

Indexed keywords

DIET; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRASS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JUVENILE; MANGROVE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUTRITION; PRAWN FISHERY; SALTMARSH; STABLE ISOTOPE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HYMENACHNE; PENAEIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 70349664581     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF08269     Document Type: Article

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