Trophic relationships at intrannual spatial and temporal scales of macro and megafauna around a submarine canyon off the Catalonian coast (western Mediterranean)

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 180-190

  Cartes, Joan E ^a   Fanelli, Emanuela ^a   Papiol, Vanesa ^a   Maynou, Francesc ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continental Slope; Food and Feeding; Megabenthos; River Flows; Submarine Canyons; Suprabenthos Zooplankton; Trophic Guilds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTACEAN; FAUNISTICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GUILD; MACROBENTHOS; MACROPHYTE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE CANYON; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

CATALONIA; CATALONIAN COASTAL RANGES; LLOBREGAT RIVER; SPAIN;

CALOCARIS MACANDREAE; CRUSTACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; PASIPHAEIDAE; PISCES; POLYCHAETA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 77949772130     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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