Food habits and trophic resource partitioning among three mormyrid fishes from man-made Lake Ayame, Ivory Coast

African Zoology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 266-274

  Kouamelan E P ^a   Kone T ^a   N'Douba, V ^a   Ollevier, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Competition; Feeding; Ivory Coast; Man made lake; Mormyridae; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; HABITAT USE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AFRICA; COTE D'IVOIRE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

CHAOBORIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MARCUSENIUS; MARCUSENIUS FURCIDENS; MARCUSENIUS USSHERI; MORMYRIDAE; PETROCEPHALUS BOVEI; PISCES;

EID: 33750944929     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3377/1562-7020(2006)41[266:FHATRP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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