Assemblage organization in stream fishes: Effects of environmental variation and interspecific interactions

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 395-420

  Grossman, Gary D ^a   Ratajczak Jr , Robert E ^a   Crawford, Maurice ^a,b   Freeman, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community organization; Droughts; Floods; Interspecific competition; Microhabitat use; Predation; Resource partitioning; Spatial resources

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MICROHABITAT; STREAM;

COWEETA CREEK; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 0031688031     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0395:AOISFE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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