Relationships between invertebrate assemblage structure, 2 trout species, and habitat structure in Utah mountain lakes

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 286-300

  Carlisle, Daren M ^a,b   Hawkins, Charles P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthos; Fish; Food webs; Habitat; Invertebrates; Lakes; Predation; Tropic structure; Trout; Utah; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATION;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

AMADINA FASCIATA; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; CHAOBORUS; COPEPODA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA ROSEA; DIAPTOMIDAE; HEMIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICULUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKI; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0031742338     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468332     Document Type: Article

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