A size-based approach to quantifying predation on longfin inshore squid Loligo pealeii in the northwest Atlantic

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 399, Issue , 2010, Pages 225-241

  Staudinger, Michelle D ^a   Juanes, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gape limitation; Loligo pealeii; Longfin inshore squid; Size based predation; Size selection; Trophic niche breadth

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; FINFISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAPE LIMITATION; MAMMAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE BREADTH; NICHE OVERLAP; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SIZE SELECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

CEPHALOPODA; ELASMOBRANCHII; LOLIGO PEALEI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 76249088060     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08339     Document Type: Article

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