Ontogeny of feeding in two native and one alien fish species from the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 76, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 303-315

  Tonkin, Zeb D ^a,d   Humphries, Paul ^b,c,e   Pridmore, Peter A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Larval development; Prey preference; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; ONTOGENY; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; CYPRINUS CARPIO; DAPHNIA; MACCULLOCHELLA PEELII PEELII; MACQUARIA AMBIGUA; PISCES;

EID: 33748517407     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9034-3     Document Type: Article

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