Partitioning of food resources in bathypelagic micronekton in the eastern Gulf of Mexico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 399, Issue , 2010, Pages 131-140

  Burghart, Scott E ^a   Hopkins, Thomas L ^a   Torres, José J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathypelagic zone; Diet; Micronekton; Niche; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; MICRONEKTON; NICHE PARTITIONING; PISCIVORE; PREY SIZE; STOMACH CONTENT; TAXONOMY; TELEOST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

BENTHESICYMIDAE; COPEPODA; CYCLOTHONE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUCOPIA; EUCOPIIDAE; GONOSTOMATIDAE; LOPHOGASTRIDA; OPLOPHORIDAE; OSTRACODA; PISCES; STERNOPTYX PSEUDOBSCURA;

EID: 76249111878     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08365     Document Type: Article

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