Diet overlap between native bigmouth sleepers (Gobiomorus dormitor) and introduced predatory fishes in a Puerto Rico reservoir

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-118

  Bacheler, Nathan M ^a   Neal, J W ^a   Noble, R L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Ontogenetic shift; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

DIET; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PREDATION; RESERVOIR;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

BAIRDIELLA RONCHUS; CICHLA; CICHLA OCELLARIS; ELEOTRIDAE; GOBIOMORUS DORMITOR; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES;

EID: 2542437173     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2004.00040.x     Document Type: Article

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