Feeding ecology and niche segregation in oceanic top predators off eastern Australia

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2347-2368

  Young, Jock W ^a   Lansdell, Matt J ^a   Campbell, Robert A ^a   Cooper, Scott P ^a   Juanes, Francis ^b   Guest, Michaela A ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CANNIBALISM; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; LONGLINING; NICHE PARTITIONING; PERCIFORM; PREY SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

ALEPISAURUS; CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS; CORYPHAENIDAE; CRUSTACEA; ISURUS OXYRINCHUS; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SCOMBRIDAE; TETRAPTURUS AUDAX; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; THUNNUS ALBACARES; THUNNUS MACCOYII; THUNNUS OBESUS; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 77957983630     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1500-y     Document Type: Article

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