Differences in species composition and feeding ecology of catostomid fishes in two distinct segments of the Missouri River, North Dakota, U.S.A.

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-141

  Welker, Tim L ^a,b   Scarnecchia, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b BIO WEST Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Food habits; Niche breadth; Niche overlap; Resource partitioning; Sucker

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; NICHE PARTITIONING;

MISSOURI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

BUBALUS; CARPIODES; CARPIODES CARPIO; CATOSTOMUS; CATOSTOMUS CATOSTOMUS; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; ICTIOBUS BUBALUS; ICTIOBUS CYPRINELLUS; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344736726     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000003831.51734.ed     Document Type: Article

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