Long-term changes in the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) trophic role in the southwestern Atlantic

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 684, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-67

  Belleggia, Mauro ^a,b,c   Figueroa, Daniel Enrique ^c   Sánchez, Felisa ^a   Bremec, Claudia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentine Sea; Chondrichthyes; Fisheries; Fishing down; Marine ecosystem; Squalidae; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CLUPEOID; DATA SET; FISHING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREY CAPTURE; SHARK; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ANCHOITA; ILLEX ARGENTINUS; MERLUCCIUS HUBBSI; SCYPHOZOA; SQUALIDAE; SQUALUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS;

EID: 84856726772     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0967-y     Document Type: Article

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