Food sources of fish and macro-invertebrates in a tropical seagrass bed at Xincun Bay, Southern China

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-38

  Fan, Minling ^a,b   Huang, Xiaoping ^a   Zhang, Dawen ^a   Zhang, Jingping ^a,b   Jiang, Zhijian ^a,b   Zeng, Yanyi ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon stable isotope; Fish; Food sources; Macro invertebrate; Sea grass

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CRAB; ECHINODERM; EPIPHYTE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PERCIFORM; POLYCHAETE; SEAFLOOR; SEAGRASS; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; XINCUN BAY;

AMBASSIS KOPSII; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CRUSTACEA; DASYBRANCHUS CADUCUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINOIDEA; ENHALUS ACOROIDES; GERRES; HALODULE UNINERVIS; HEMICENTROTUS; HEMICENTROTUS PULCHERRIMUS; HYPOATHERINA VALENCIENNEI; INVERTEBRATA; MARPHYSA SANGUINEA; METAPENAEUS; PARASCORPAENA PICTA; PENAEUS MONODON; POLYCHAETA; PORTUNUS PELAGICUS; SARDINELLA ZUNASI; STOLEPHORUS; TERAPON THERAPS; THALAMITA; THALAMITA DANAE; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII;

EID: 79952690832     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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