Diets of five important predatory mesopelagic fishes of the central North Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 492, Issue , 2013, Pages 169-184

  Choy, C Anela ^a   Portner, Elan ^a   Iwane, Mia ^b   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological niche partitioning; Escolar; Lancetfish; North Pacific Subtropical Gyre; Opah; Snake mackerel; Stomach content analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; AQUATIC ORGANISM; DIET; NICHE PARTITIONING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC FISH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STOMACH CONTENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84887499079     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10518     Document Type: Article

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