Different food preferences in four sympatric deep-sea Macrourid fishes

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-72

  Stevens, Darren W ^a   Dunn, Matthew R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP SEA; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONTOGENY; POLYCHAETE; RESOURCE USE; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; TELEOST;

CHATHAM RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALANOIDA; COELORINCHUS; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; LEPIDORHYNCHUS DENTICULATUS; MACROURIDAE; PISCES; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 78650742980     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1542-1     Document Type: Article

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