Selective feeding by three native North American freshwater mussels implies food competition with zebra mussels

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 505, Issue , 2003, Pages 97-105

  Baker, Shirley M ^a,b   Levinton, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clearance rates; Freshwater mussels; Particle selection; Zebra mussels

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; NUTRITION;

PARTICLE PREFERENCES; SELECTIVE FEEDING;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLEARANCE RATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FILTER FEEDER; FOOD SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SIZE SELECTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMBLEMA PLICATA; AMBLEMIDAE; BIVALVIA; CYANOBACTERIA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; DREISSENIDAE; MARGARITIFERA; MARGARITIFERA MARGARITIFERA; MICROCYSTIS; PYGANODON; PYGANODON CATARACTA; TYPHA; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 0347093360     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000007298.52250.99     Document Type: Article

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