Preliminary study of dietary interactions between invading Ponto-Caspian gobies and some native fish species in the River Danube near Bratislava (Slovakia)

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-200

  Copp, Gordon H ^a   Kováč, Vladimír ^b   Zweimüller, Irene ^c   Dias, Andrea ^b   Nascimento, Miguel ^b   Balážová, Maria ^b,d  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Catholic University   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Balon's ruffe gymnocephalus baloni; Bighead goby neogobius kessleri; Dietary overlap; Eurasian perch perca fluviatilis; Round goby neogobius melanostomus

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350275559     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2008.3.2.10     Document Type: Article

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