Gut content and stable isotope analyses provide complementary understanding of ontogenetic dietary shifts and trophic relationships among fishes in a tropical river

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2156-2172

  Davis, Aaron M ^a   Blanchette, Melanie L ^a   Pusey, Bradley J ^b   Jardine, Tim D ^b   Pearson, Richard G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body size; Feeding ecology; Mixing model; Omnivory; Organic matter

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; PISCES; TERAPONTIDAE;

EID: 84865862218     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02858.x     Document Type: Article

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