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- Title
Contribution of mangrove detritus to juvenile prawn nutrition: a dual stable isotope study in a Malaysian mangrove forest.
- Authors
Chong, V. C.; Low, C. B.; Ichikawa, T.
- Abstract
Discusses the use of a dual stable carbon and nitrogen ratio approach to analyze the major primary food sources, the sediments and several species of penaeid prawns of a mangrove swamp in Perak, Malaysia. Analyses of muscle tissue and gut contents of the dominant species, Penaeus merguiensis; Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios for samples collected inside and outside the Matang mangrove swamp; Contribution of mangrove detritus to prawn nutrition.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; PERAK (Malaysia); SHRIMPS; MANGROVE swamps; PENAEUS merguiensis
- Publication
Marine Biology, 2001, Vol 138, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
0025-3162
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s002270000434