Use of a thermal and light refugium by Daphnia and its effects on foraging pumkinseeds

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-349

  Hartleb, Christopher F ^a,b   Haney, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clearance rate; Feeding rate; Leponis gibbosus; Predation; Prey availability; Searching volume

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; LIGHT GRADIENT; PUMPKINSEED; REFUGE; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS;

EID: 0031981681     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007432005348     Document Type: Article

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