Sympatry between threespine Gasterosteus aculeatus and ninespine Pungitius pungitius sticklebacks in English lowland streams

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 341-355

  Copp, Gordon H ^a,b   Kováč, Vladimír ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DIETARY OVERLAP; FISH; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROHABITAT; STREAM; SYMPATRY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APIUM; COTTUS; COTTUS GOBIO; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GOBIO; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141572238     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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