Arctic charr in sympatry with burbot: Ecological and evolutionary consequences

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 650, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-54

  Knudsen, Rune ^a   Amundsen, Per Arne ^a   Klemetsen, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diphyllobothrium parasites; Interactive segregation; Lota lota; Predation; Salvelinus alpinus

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC SALMON; BROWN TROUTS; HIGH DENSITY; LITTORAL ZONE; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PARASITE INFECTION; POPULATION DENSITIES; SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA;

LAKES; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ECOLOGY;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; ECOTYPE; GADOID; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LARVA; NICHE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SALMONID; SUBARCTIC REGION; SYMPATRY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

NORWAY;

COPEPODA; CYPRINIDAE; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; LOTA; LOTA LOTA; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; THYMALLUS THYMALLUS;

EID: 77953961050     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-0077-2     Document Type: Article

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