Foraging rates of a vertebrate and an invertebrate predator in stream enclosures

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 459-466

  Dahl, Jonas ^a   Greenberg, Larry ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN TROUT; FORAGING RATE; HABITAT USE; LEECH;

AMPHIPODA; BAETIDAE; BAETIS RHODANI; EPHEMEROPTERA; ERPOBDELLA OCTOCULATA; GAMMARUS PULEX; HIRUDINEA; SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 0030617836     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545607     Document Type: Article

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