A prey-related shift in the abundance of small pelagic fish in eastern Tasmania?

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 953-960

  McLeod, David J ^a,b,c   Hobday, Alistair J ^a,b   Lyle, Jeremy M ^c   Welsford, Dirk C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; copepods; Emmelichthys nitidus; fisheries; foodwebs; Nyctiphanes australis; Trachurus declivis; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIETARY OVERLAP; FOOD WEB; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PELAGIC FISH; PERCID; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY PREFERENCE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STOMACH CONTENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

AUSTRALIA; EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMANIA;

COPEPODA; DIPTERYGONOTUS LEUCOGRAMMICUS; EMMELICHTHYS NITIDUS; EUPHAUSIACEA; NYCTIPHANES AUSTRALIS; TRACHURUS DECLIVIS;

EID: 84863584414     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss069     Document Type: Article

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