Trophic ecology of sympatric Arctic gadoids, Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1872) and Boreogadus saida (Lepechin, 1774), in NE Greenland

Polar Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1247-1257

  Christiansen, Jørgen S ^a   Hop, Haakon ^b   Nilssen, Einar M ^a   Joensen, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic gadoids; Dietary overlap; Stable isotopes; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CARBON ISOTOPE; COEXISTENCE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FJORD; FOOD WEB; GADOID; MUSCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PREY AVAILABILITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT; SYMPATRY; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND;

ARCTOGADUS GLACIALIS; BOREOGADUS SAIDA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; GADIFORMES; METRIDIA LONGA; MYSIDA; MYSIS OCULATA; PISCES;

EID: 84864327408     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-012-1170-y     Document Type: Article

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