Geographic Variation in the Diet of Opaleye (Girella nigricans) with Respect to Temperature and Habitat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Behrens, Michael D ^a,b   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIRELLA NIGRICANS; GREEN ALGA; HERBIVORY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OMNIVORE; PREDICTION; RED ALGA; SEA URCHIN; SPECIES HABITAT; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNITED STATES; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CHLOROPHYTA; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERCIFORMES; RHODOPHYTA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; GIRELLA NIGRICANS; PISCES;

EID: 84866724834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045901     Document Type: Article

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