Trophic ecology of elasmobranchs caught off Gujarat, India, as inferred from stable isotopes

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 547-554

  Borrell, Asunción ^a   Cardona, Luis ^a   Kumarran, Ramanathan P ^b   Aguilar, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

13C; 15N; India; Rays; Sharks

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CEPHALOPOD; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; FISH; HABITAT USE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MATURATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NURSERY GROUND; ONTOGENY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

GUJARAT; INDIA;

AETOMYLAEUS MACULATUS; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; MOBULA DIABOLUS; OSTEICHTHYES; PRISTIS PECTINATA; RHINA ANCYLOSTOMA; RHINCODON TYPUS; RHINOBATIDAE; RHINOBATOS GRANULATUS; SPHYRNA LEWINI; STEGOSTOMA FASCIATUM;

EID: 79951977924     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq170     Document Type: Article

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