Seasonal cycles in whole-body proximate composition and energy content of forage fish vary with water depth

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 413-427

  Vollenweider, Johanna J ^a   Heintz, Ron A ^a   Schaufler, Lawrence ^a   Bradshaw, Robert ^a  

^a Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; DEMERSAL FISH; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER DEPTH;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78651417948     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1569-3     Document Type: Article

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