Examination of direct daytime predation by coregonus artedi on bythotrephes longimanus in Harp Lake, Ontario, Canada: no evidence for the refuge hypothesis

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 449-459

  Young, Joelle D ^a,c   Loew, Ellis R ^b   Yan, Norman D ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC METHOD; CRUSTACEAN; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTIVORY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; REFUGE; SALMONID; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; HARP LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

BYTHOTREPHES; BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS; COREGONUS ARTEDI;

EID: 65249144685     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F09-006     Document Type: Article

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