Fatty acid trophic markers elucidate resource partitioning within the demersal fish community of South Georgia and Shag Rocks (Southern Ocean)

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2299-2310

  Stowasser, Gabriele ^a   Pond, David W ^a   Collins, Martin A ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Government House   (Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKER; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; DEMERSAL FISH; DIET; FATTY ACID; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING GROUND; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MUSCLE; NICHE PARTITIONING; PERCIFORM; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANTARCTICA; SHAG ROCKS; SOUTH GEORGIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CHAMPSOCEPHALUS GUNNARI; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 84866742359     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2015-5     Document Type: Article

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