Resource partitioning and asymmetric competition between sympatric freshwater and Omono types of ninespine stickleback, Pungitius pungitius

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-168

  Tsuruta, Tetsuya ^a,b   Goto, Akira ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GROUNDWATER; NUTRITION; RIVERS;

FRESHWATER; PONDS; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; STOMACH;

FISH;

ALLOPATRY; ASYMMETRIC COMPETITION; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; DIETARY SHIFT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SYMPATRY; TELEOST;

AKITA; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; OMONO RIVER; TOHOKU;

COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 34347267565     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-207     Document Type: Article

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