Integrating community structure and stable isotope analysis to assess a heavily exploited coastal marine ecosystem off Central Vietnam

Fisheries Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 268-276

  Nam, Nguyen Thanh ^a   Miller, Todd William ^b   Huan, Nguyen Xuan ^a   Tang, Vu Trung ^a   Omori, Koji ^b  

^a VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benthic pelagic coupling; Community structure; Fisheries; Food web; Marine; Phan Thi t; Shelf; Stable isotopes; Trophic structure; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LOLIOLUS JAPONICA; OCTOPUS; OCTOPUS SP.; PISCES; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 79959197692     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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