Niche breadth and trophic diversity: Feeding behaviour of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) towards environmental availability of aquatic macroinvertebrates in a rice field (Portugal)

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 421-429

  Correia, Alexandra Marçal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Availability of macroinvertebrates; Feeding behaviour; Niche breadth; P. clarkii; Trophic diversity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; CRAYFISH; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NICHE BREADTH; RANGE EXPANSION;

PORTUGAL;

ASTACOIDEA; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII;

EID: 0036929866     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(02)01166-9     Document Type: Article

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