Extensive geographic and ontogenetic variation characterizes the trophic ecology of a temperate reef fish on southern California (USA) rocky reefs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 429, Issue , 2011, Pages 227-244

  Hamilton, Scott L ^a,b   Caselle, Jennifer E ^a   Lantz, Coulson A ^a   Egloff, Tiana L ^a   Kondo, Emi ^a   Newsome, Seth D ^c   Loke Smith, Kerri ^d   Pondella II, Daniel J ^e   Young, Kelly A ^d   Lowe, Christopher G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

California sheephead; Channel Islands; Demographic consequences; Feeding habit; Gut contents; Semicossyphus pulcher; Spatial variability; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY SHIFT; ECHINODERM; FILTER FEEDER; KELP FOREST; MARINE PARK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; REEF; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; SEMICOSSYPHUS PULCHER;

EID: 79956074960     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09086     Document Type: Article

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