Dynamics of the Lake Michigan food web, 1970-2000

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 736-753

  Madenjian, Charles P ^a   Fahnenstiel, Gary L ^a   Johengen, Thomas H ^a   Nalepa, Thomas F ^a   Vanderploeg, Henry A ^a   Fleischer, Guy W ^a   Schneeberger, Philip J ^a   Benjamin, Darren M ^a   Smith, Emily B ^a   Bence, James R ^a   Rutherford, Edward S ^a   Lavis, Dennis S ^a   Robertson, Dale M ^a   Jude, David J ^a   Ebener, Mark P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATION;

UNITED STATES;

ALOSA; ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; ANNELIDA; COREGONUS; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; LOTA LOTA; MYOXOCEPHALUS; MYOXOCEPHALUS THOMPSONII; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PERCA FLAVESCENS; PETROMYZON MARINUS; PETROMYZONTIDAE;

EID: 18644367003     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f02-044     Document Type: Review

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