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Occurrence and diet of the seabass Dicentrarchus labrax in the salt marsh creeks of Het Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe [Voorkomen en voeding van de Zeebaars Dicentrarchus labrax in de kreken van het Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe]
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Description
Seasonal variation in Dicentrarchus labrax size frequency distributions in het Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe was studied. Additionally, stomach contents of these fish were analysed and compared between high and low tide.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries)
Keywords:
Brackish water, Diets, Ecology, Fishes, Salt marshes, ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde, Verdronken Land van Saeftinge, ANE, Scheldt Estuary, Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde, Verdronken Land van Saeftinge [Marine Regions]
ANE, Scheldt Estuary [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1990 - 1991

Taxonomic coverage
Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Parameters
Biomass prey items in stomach
Seabass density
Standard length Seabass
Stomach content seabass
Stomach fullness seabass

Contributors
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), moredata creatordata owner
Cattrijsse, André
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Salt marsh creeks in the brackish part of the Westerschelde estuary as habitat for fishes and macrocrustaceans

Publication
Based on this dataset
Cattrijsse, A. (1994). Schorkreken in het brakke deel van het Westerschelde estuarium als habitat voor vissen en macrocrustacea. PhD Thesis. Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep morfologie, systematiek en ecologie: Gent. V, 123 pp.

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2007-08-09
Information last updated: 2007-09-21
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