Flow regime affects availability of native and nonnative prey of an endangered predator

Biological Conservation

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 330-340

  Franssen, Nathan R ^a   Gido, Keith B ^a   Propst, David L ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado pikeminnow; Hydrologic regime; Match mismatch hypothesis; Ontogenetic diet shift; Predator prey relationship; Spawning chronology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CYPRINID; DIETARY SHIFT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOW PATTERN; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MESOCOSM; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; SAN JUAN RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINELLA LUTRENSIS; PISCES; PTYCHOCHEILUS LUCIUS;

EID: 34547597769     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.04.028     Document Type: Article

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