Identification of marine fish egg predators using molecular probes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 462, Issue , 2012, Pages 205-218

  Fox, Clive J ^a   Taylor, Martin I ^b   Van Der Kooij, Jeroen ^c   Taylor, Natasha ^c   Milligan, Stephen P ^c   Albaina, Aitor ^d   Pascoal, Sonia ^b   Lallias, Delphine ^b   Maillard, Marjorie ^b   Hunter, Ewan ^c  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fish eggs; Herring; Plaice; Predation; Recruitment; Sprat

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; BENTHOS; BIOACOUSTICS; CLUPEOID; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EGG PREDATION; FLATFISH; GADOID; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LARVA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PLANKTON; PROBE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STOMACH CONTENT; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

EID: 84865407674     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09748     Document Type: Article

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