Shark Predation on Migrating Adult American Eels (Anguilla rostrata) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Béguer Pon, Mélanie ^a   Benchetrit, José ^a   Castonguay, Martin ^b   Aarestrup, Kim ^c   Campana, Steven E ^d   Stokesbury, Michael J W ^e   Dodson, Julian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^e ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA ROSTRATA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; EEL; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TUNA; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AGING; ANGUILLA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARIES; GEOGRAPHY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; QUEBEC; SHARKS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867660709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046830     Document Type: Article

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