Habitat use and diet of two stream gobies of the genus Rhinogobius in south-western Shikoku, Japan

Ecological Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-219

  Sone, Shin ^a   Inoue, Mikio ^a   Yanagisawa, Yasunobu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Habitat segregation; Interspecific competition; Resource partitioning; Rhinogobius; Stream

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; DIET; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; NICHE PARTITIONING; STREAM; SYMPATRY;

JAPAN;

BAETIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; GOBIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; RHINOGOBIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035384647     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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