Indirect food web effects of Bythotrephes invasion: Responses by the rotifer Conochilus in Harp Lake, Canada

Biological Invasions

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-243

  Hovius, Jonathan T ^a   Beisner, Beatrix E ^b   McCann, Kevin S ^a   Yan, Norman D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bythotrephes; Competition; Conochilus; Harp Lake; Indirect effects; Predation; Rotifers; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; HARP LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; RED CHALK LAKE;

BYTHOTREPHES; BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS; CONOCHILUS; CONOCHILUS UNICORNIS; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTODORA; MESOCYCLOPS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 33947535361     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-006-9028-2     Document Type: Article

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