Communal or competitive? Stable isotope analysis provides evidence of resource partitioning within a communal shark nursery

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 439, Issue , 2011, Pages 263-276

  Kinney, Michael J ^a   Hussey, Nigel E ^b   Fisk, Aaron T ^b   Tobin, Andrew J ^a   Simpfendorfer, Colin A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coastal; Dietary overlap; Muscle; Niche partitioning; Plasma; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BLOOD; CARBON ISOTOPE; CELL ORGANELLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COEXISTENCE; DIETARY OVERLAP; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MUSCLE; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NURSERY GROUND; PLASMA; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SHARK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TELEOST; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AUSTRALIA; CLEVELAND BAY; QUEENSLAND;

CHONDRICHTHYES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 80055003172     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09327     Document Type: Article

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