Niche differentiation depends on body size in a cichlid fish: A model system of a community structured according to size regularities

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 859-868

  Kohda, Masanori ^a   Shibata, Jun Ya ^a   Awata, Satoshi ^a   Gomagano, Daisuke ^a   Takeyama, Tomohiro ^a,b   Hori, Michio ^b   Heg, Dik ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Food resource partitioning; Foraging site partitioning; Guild structure; Niche differentiation; Size ratio

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSPECIFIC; DIETARY OVERLAP; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GUILD STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE PARTITIONING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CICHLID; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CICHLIDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CICHLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LOBOCHILOTES LABIATUS;

EID: 49649126326     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01414.x     Document Type: Article

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