Growth and feeding patterns of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) early life stages in the Aegean Sea (NE Mediterranean)

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-312

  Catalán, Ignacio A ^a   Folkvord, Arild ^b   Palomera, Isabel ^c   Quílez Badía, Gemma ^c   Kallianoti, Fotini ^d   Tselepides, Anastasios ^e   Kallianotis, Argyris ^d  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BODY SIZE; CLUPEOID; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIET; EGG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; PREY SIZE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SHALLOW WATER; WATER DEPTH;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

COPEPODA; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS;

EID: 72749111816     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.11.033     Document Type: Article

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