Ontogenetic diet profiles and size-dependent diet partitioning of ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus, perch Perca fluviatilis and pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus in Lake Balaton

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-349

  Rezsu, E ^a   Specziar A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Diet partitioning; Gymnocephalus cernuus; Lepomis gibbosus; Ontogenetic diet shift; Perca fluviatilis

Indexed keywords

DIETARY OVERLAP; DIETARY SHIFT; FISH; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ONTOGENY; PISCIVORE; PLANKTIVORE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; LAKE BALATON;

CHIRONOMIDAE; GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; PERCA FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 33746941729     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2006.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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