Discrete prey availability promotes foraging segregation and early divergence in Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 650, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-26

  Garduño Paz, Mónica V ^a   Adams, Colin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative prey; Discrete prey; Foraging specialism; Trophic phenotype

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SPECIES; ARTEMIA; BENTHIC PREY; CHIRONOMIDS; EVOLUTION PROCESS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GLACIAL LAKES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL POPULATION;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ECOLOGY;

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; DIVERGENCE; FLY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PLANKTON; POSTGLACIAL; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SELECTION; SALMONID; SPECIALIST;

ANIMALIA; ARTEMIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; PISCES; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77953958206     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-0055-8     Document Type: Article

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