Conservation and conflict between endangered desert fishes

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 655-658

  Gumm, Jennifer M ^a   Snekser, Jennifer L ^a   Itzkowitz, Murray ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyprinodon; Gambusia; Predation; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CYPRINID; DESERT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT LOSS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; SPAWNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; CONFLICT; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODON BOVINUS; DESERT; DYNAMICS; EGG; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; GAMBUSIA NOBILIS; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING; TERRITORIALITY;

CYPRINODON; CYPRINODON BOVINUS; GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA NOBILIS; PISCES;

EID: 58149234162     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0506     Document Type: Article

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