Mechanisms explaining nursery habitat association: How do juvenile snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) benefit from their nursery habitat?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Parsons, Darren M ^a   Middleton, Crispin ^a   Spong, Keren T ^a   Mackay, Graeme ^a   Smith, Matt D ^a   Buckthought, Dane ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALANOID; CHRYSOPHRYS AURATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOPOID; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ESTUARY; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HABITAT; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; NURSERY HABITAT; PLANKTON; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; SAMPLING; SNAPPER; SPECIES REFUGE; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; WATER FLOW; AGE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATION; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING;

CALANOIDA; CHRYSOPHRYS AURATUS; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATION; PERCIFORMES; PLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84925651830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122137     Document Type: Article

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