Assessment of impacts of invasive fishes on the food web structure and ecosystem properties of a tropical reservoir in India

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2281-2290

  Feroz Khan, M ^a   Panikkar, Preetha ^a  

^a Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Ascendancy; Invasive fishes; Mixed trophic impact; Modeling; Reservoir ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ASCENDANCY; INVASIVE FISHES; MIXED TROPHIC IMPACT; MODELING; RESERVOIR ECOSYSTEM;

ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD ADDITIVES; MEATS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

FISH;

ABUNDANCE; CICHLID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE OVERLAP; OMNIVORY; PREDATION; RESERVOIR; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

CYPRINIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; SILURIFORMES; TILAPIA;

EID: 68349125273     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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