Fishes as integrators of benthic and pelagic food webs in lakes

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2152-2161

  Vander Zanden, M Jake ^a,c   Vadeboncoeur, Yvonne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Cross chain omnivory; Diet analysis; Energy flow; Food chain; Food web; Pelagic; Stable isotope analysis; Trophic dynamics; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHIVORY; FISH; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOBENTHOS;

PISCES;

EID: 0037888161     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2152:FAIOBA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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