Partitioning of food resources among Sillago japonica, Ditremma temmincki, Tridentiger trigonocephalus, Hippocampus japonicus and Petroscirtes breviceps in an eelgrass, Zostera marina, bed

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 353-364

  Kwak, Seok Nam ^a   Huh, Sung Hoi ^b   Klumpp, David W ^c  

^a Pukyong University   (South Korea)

^b Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

diel variation; dietary breadth; diets; mouth size; ontogeny

Indexed keywords

DIEL VARIATION; DIET; FISH; NICHE PARTITIONING; SEAGRASS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; KWANGYANG BAY; SOUTH CHOLLA; SOUTH KOREA; WORLD;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; BREVICEPS; CAPRELLIDA; COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GAMMARIDEA; GASTROPODA; HIPPOCAMPUS JAPONICUS; ISOPODA; JAPONICA; MYSIDA; PETROSCIRTES BREVICEPS; PISCES; POLYCHAETA; SILLAGO; SILLAGO JAPONICA; TRIDENTIGER TRIGONOCEPHALUS; VERTEBRATA; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 9644283005     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-004-1259-4     Document Type: Article

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