Food habits and food resource partitioning in three coexisting Barbus species

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 325-336

  Encina, Lourdes ^a   Granado Lorencio, Carlos ^a  

^a P Albert I of Monaco   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Diet breadth; Diet overlap; Food competition; Prey selection

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DIET; FOOD HABIT; RESOURCE PARTITIONING;

SPAIN, TORREJON RSSERVOIR;

BARBUS;

EID: 0031472305     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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