Competing predators and prey: Juvenile bottlenecks in whole-lake experiments

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2153-2167

  Byström, Pär ^a   Persson, Lennart ^a   Wahlström, Eva ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competition; Juvenile bottlenecks; Ontogeny; Perca fluviatilis; Perch; Predator recruitment; Roach; Rutilus rutilus; Swedish lakes; Temporal variation in competition; Whole lake experiments; Winter mortality and starvation

Indexed keywords

FISH; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; JUVENILE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT;

PERCA FLUVIATILIS; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 0031712956     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2153:CPAPJB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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