Response of the invertebrate predator Bythotrephes to a climate-linked increase in the duration of a refuge from fish predation

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 6 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2506-2512

  Mancaa, Marina ^a   DeMott, William R ^b,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; HABITAT USE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REFUGE;

ITALY; LAKE MAGGIORE;

BYTHOTREPHES; BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA HYALINA; INVERTEBRATA; ONYCHOPODA;

EID: 70849097503     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6_part_2.2506     Document Type: Article

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