Interactions between fish, grazing invertebrates and algae in a New Zealand stream: A trophic cascade mediated by fish-induced changes to grazer behaviour?

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 174-181

  McIntosh, Angus R ^a,b   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing; Indirect effects; Predator prey interactions; Streams; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ARTHROPODA; DELEATIDIUM; EPHEMEROPTERA; GALAXIAS; GALAXIAS VULGARIS; INVERTEBRATA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE;

ALGAE; BROWN TROUT; COMMON RIVER GALAXIAS; GRAZING; INTRODUCED FISH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, SHAG RIVER;

EID: 0029663702     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00333229     Document Type: Article

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