Birds are overlooked top predators in aquatic food webs

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1324-1328

  Steinmetz, Jeff ^a,c   Kohler, Steven L ^b   Soluk, Daniel A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Ardea; Birds; Campostoma; Ceryle; Cyprinid; Fish; Food webs; Heron; Kingfisher; Luxilus; Predator; Prey; Riparian; Shiner; Stoneroller

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOOD WEB; PISCIVORE; PREDATOR; STREAM;

ALCEDINIDAE; ARDEA; ARDEA HERODIAS; ARDEIDAE; AVES; CAMPOSTOMA; CAMPOSTOMA ANOMALUM; CERYLE; CERYLE ALCYON; CYPRINIDAE; GALLIFORMES; LUXILUS; LUXILUS CHRYSOCEPHALUS; PERCIDAE; RIPARIA;

EID: 0344154588     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1324:BAOTPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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