Impacts of fish predation on marsh invertebrates: Direct and indirect effects

Wetlands

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 307-312

  Batzer, Darold P ^a   Pusateri, Christopher R ^b   Vetter, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Malheur National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Predation; Trophic interaction

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PREDATOR; WETLAND;

AMEIURUS NEBULOSUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CORIXIDAE; COTTUS GOBIO; CYPRINUS CARPIO; DIPTERA; GASTROPODA; GLOSSIPHONIIDAE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; ICTALURUS; ICTALURUS NEBULOSUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; PHYSIDAE; PLANORBIDAE; POMOXIS NIGROMACULATUS;

EID: 0033936992     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2000)020[0307:IOFPOM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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