Functional significance of variation in trophic morphology within feeding microhabitat-differentiated cichlid species in Lake Malawi

Animal Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-90

  Kassam, Daud ^a   Adams, Dean C ^b   Yamaoka, Kosaku ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal feeders; Cichlidae; Geometric morphometrics; Thin plate spline; Zooplankton feeders

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROHABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALGAE; CICHLIDAE; COPADICHROMIS; COPADICHROMIS BORLEYI; LABEOTROPHEUS FUELLEBORNI; PETROTILAPIA;

EID: 2942571126     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075604323010060     Document Type: Article

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