Food resource partitioning in a Mediterranean demersal fish assemblage: The effect of body size and niche width

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-574

  Colloca, Francesco ^a   Carpentieri, Paolo ^a   Balestri, Elena ^a   Ardizzone, Giandomenico ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; DEMERSAL FISH; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GUILD; MARINE RESOURCE; NICHE; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SHELF BREAK; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77649340786     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1342-7     Document Type: Article

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