Food resources of shrimp-eating cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 52, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 371-378

  Yuma, Masahide ^a   Narita, Tctsuya ^a   Hori, Michio ^a   Kondo, Takaki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atyidae; Diurnal variation of prey abundance; Prey size; Prey species

Indexed keywords

FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREY SIZE;

AFRICA; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

DECAPODA; LIMNOCARIDINA LATIPES;

EID: 0031928315     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007370204240     Document Type: Article

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