Raiding the Larder: A Quantitative Evaluation Framework and Trophic Signature for Seamount Food Webs

Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries & Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 282-295

  Pitcher, Tony J ^a   Bulman, Cathy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital food chains; Marine mammals; Marine turtles; New Zealand; Seamount ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948781766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691953.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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