Impact of predation on early stages of the armoured catfish Hoplosternum thoracatum (Siluriformes-Callichthyidae) and implications for the syntopic occurrence with other related catfishes in a neotropical multi- predator swamp

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 395-410

  Mol, Jan H ^a,b  

^a ANTON DE KOM UNIVERSITY OF SURINAME   (Suriname)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Fish predators; Invertebrate predators; Predation; Suriname

Indexed keywords

HOPLOSTERNUM THORACATUM;

EID: 0029853582     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328457     Document Type: Article

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