Flexible niche partitioning via a foraging mode shift: A proposed mechanism for coexistence in stream-dwelling charts

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1079-1092

  Nakano, Shigeru ^a,b   Fausch, Kurt D ^c   Kitano, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural mechanisms of interference competition; Foraging mode shifts; Mechanistic approach; Resource partitioning; Stream salmonids

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE PARTITIONING; SALMONID;

JAPAN;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; SALVELINUS LEUCOMAENIS; SALVELINUS MALMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032723644     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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