Condition-specific competition: Implications for the altitudinal distribution of stream fishes

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2027-2039

  Taniguchi, Yoshinori ^a,b   Nakano, Shigeru ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Altitudinal distributions; Competition; Condition specific competition; Growth rates; Mechanistic approaches; Size dependent mortality; Stream salmonids; Survival analysis; Temperature and competitive exclusion

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM;

HOKKAIDO ISLAND; JAPAN;

SALVELINUS LEUCOMAENIS; SALVELINUS MALMA;

EID: 0033939871     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2027:CSCIFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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