Habitat selection by grey mullets (Osteichthyes: Mugilidae) in Mediterranean estuaries: the role of salinity

L Cardona - Scientia Marina, 2006 - scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es
A stratified study of microhabitat use by grey mullet on the island of Minorca (Balearic
archipelago, western Mediterranean) showed that the distribution of all the species was …

Food and feeding of Mugilidae

L Cardona - Biology, ecology and culture of grey mullets …, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Grey mullets have often been described as mud-eaters, iliophagous, detritus feeders,
deposit feeders and interface feeders (Brusle 1981) because the diet of most of these …

Fatty acid transfer in the food web of a coastal Mediterranean lagoon: Evidence for high arachidonic acid retention in fish

AM Koussoroplis, A Bec, ME Perga, E Koutrakis… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The transfer of fatty acids (FAs) in the food web of a Mediterranean lagoon was studied
using FA compositional patterns across several trophic levels. The structure of the food web …

Waterbird impacts on widgeongrass Ruppia maritima in a Mediterranean wetland: comparing bird groups and seasonal effects

H Rodríguez‐Pérez, AJ Green - Oikos, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the effect of waterbirds on the submerged macrophyte Ruppia maritima in
eleven fish ponds within Doñana Natural Park (SW Spain). Separate exclosure designs …

Nutritional importance of minor dietary sources for leaping grey mullet Liza saliens (Mugilidae) during settlement: insights from fatty acid δ13C analysis

AM Koussoroplis, A Bec, ME Perga… - Marine Ecology …, 2010 - int-res.com
The present case study combined fatty acid analysis and compound-specific carbon isotopic
analysis of fatty acids in order to trace changes in dietary sources of essential fatty acids …

Glass eel recruitment, Anguilla anguilla (L.), in a Mediterranean lagoon assessed by a glass eel trap: factors explaining the catches

AJ Crivelli, N Auphan, P Chauvelon, A Sandoz… - Fish and Diadromy in …, 2008 - Springer
Although the colonisation of coastal rivers on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coast by glass
eels, Anguilla anguilla, has been well studied and understood, the colonisation of lagoons …

Strong seasonal effects of waterbirds on benthic communities in shallow lakes

H Rodríguez-Pérez, AJ Green - Freshwater Science, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
Little is known about the effects of waterbirds on benthic macroinvertebrates in nontidal
habitats. We conducted 4 waterbird-exclusion experiments in a transformed marshland in …

Molecules and morphology reveal cryptic variation among digeneans infecting sympatric mullets in the Mediterranean

I Blasco-Costa, JA Balbuena, JA Raga, A Kostadinova… - Parasitology, 2010 - cambridge.org
We applied a combined molecular and morphological approach to resolve the taxonomic
status of Saccocoelium spp. parasitizing sympatric mullets (Mugilidae) in the Mediterranean …

Invasion of artificial ponds in Don˜ ana Natural Park, southwest Spain, by an exotic estuarine copepod

D Frisch, H Rodríguez-Pérez, AJ Green - 2006 - digital.csic.es
1. During a study of five artificial brackish ponds situated in Donana Natural Park and the
Guadalquivir delta between July 2001 and June 2002, a total of six copepod species (two …

Juvenile bottlenecks and salinity shape grey mullet assemblages in Mediterranean estuaries

L Cardona, B Hereu, X Torras - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2008 - Elsevier
Previous research has suggested that competitive bottlenecks may exist for the
Mediterranean grey mullets (Osteichthyes, Mugilidae) at the fry stage with the exotic …