Temperature and diet effects on omnivorous fish performance: Implications for the latitudinal diversity gradient in herbivorous fishes

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 867-873

  Behrens, Michael D ^a,b   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DIET; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; OMNIVORY; PERCIFORM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMALIA; GIRELLA NIGRICANS; PISCES;

EID: 34548153468     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-063     Document Type: Article

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