Diet of sardine Sardina pilchardus: An 'end-to-end' field study

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 453, Issue , 2012, Pages 173-188

  Nikolioudakis, N ^a,b   Isari, S ^a   Pitta, P ^a   Somarakis, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diet; End to end; Food web; Sardina pilchardus; Sardine

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; BODY SIZE; CLUPEOID; COASTAL ZONE; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; DIVERSITY INDEX; FIELD METHOD; FILTER FEEDER; FOOD WEB; JUVENILE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREY SELECTION; SAMPLING; STRATIFICATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALANOIDA; CENTROPAGES; CLUPEIDAE; COPEPODA; SARDINA PILCHARDUS;

EID: 84861017814     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09656     Document Type: Article

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