Predator communities associated with brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) prey: Patterns in body size

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 297-309

  Zimmerman, Mara S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GREAT LAKES FISHERY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GAPE LIMITATION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CULAEA INCONSTANS;

EID: 33645112269     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f05-216     Document Type: Article

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