Zooplankton responses to predation by larval bluegill: An enclosure experiment

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 636-648

  Rettig, Jessica E ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Larval fish; Lepomis; Multidimensional scaling; Zooplankton size structure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; FISH; GAPE LIMITATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SIZE; SIZE STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 0037389424     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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