Efficiency of fish feeding on plant-attached prey: Effects of inorganic turbidity and plant-mediated changes in the light environment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1550-1555

  Nurminen, Leena ^a   Horppila, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; FISH; LEAF; LIGHT; MACROPHYTE; PREDATION; TURBIDITY;

PERCA FLUVIATILIS; SIDA CRYSTALLINA;

EID: 33744903925     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1550     Document Type: Article

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