Ecomorphology and resource use by dominant species of tropical estuarine juvenile fishes

Neotropical Ichthyology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 401-412

  Pessanha, André Luiz Machado ^a   Araújo, Francisco Gerson ^b   Oliveira, Ronnie Enderson M C C ^a   da Silva, Adna Ferreira ^a   Sales, Natalice Santos ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diets; Estuary; Habitats; Morphology; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

PISCES;

EID: 84937960957     PISSN: 16796225     EISSN: 19820224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20140080     Document Type: Article

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