Length and weight estimates from diagnostic hard part structures of fish, crustacea and cephalopods forage species in the western Indian Ocean

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 413-423

  Potier, Michel ^a   Ménard, Frédéric ^a   Benivary, Herman Doris ^b   Sabatié, Richard ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b University of Antsiranana   (France)

^c AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Diet; Hard part structures; Length length relationships; Prey; Reconstructed weight; Weight length relationships

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; CRUSTACEAN; DIGESTION; FISH; FISHING GEAR; FORAGE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; PELAGIC FISH; PREDATOR; PREY SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOMACH CONTENT; WEIGHT;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST);

ALEPISAURIDAE; CARANGIDAE; CARCHARHINIDAE; CEPHALOPODA; CORYPHAENIDAE; CRUSTACEA; ISTIOPHORINAE; SCOMBRIDAE; SPHYRAENIDAE; XIPHIIDAE;

EID: 80053525159     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9848-5     Document Type: Article

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