Nonnative trout impact an alpine-nesting bird by altering aquatic-insect subsidies

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2406-2415

  Epanchin, Peter N ^a,c   Knapp, Roland A ^b   Lawler, Sharon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Departments of Cognitive Science and Neurosciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic insect emergence; Aquatic terrestrial linkages; Callibaetis ferrugineus; Densitymediated indirect effect; Ecosystem boundary; Ecosystem subsidy; Fish stocking; Food web; Land water interface; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Passeriformes; Salvelinus fontinalis

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLEDGING; FOOD WEB; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE; MAYFLY; NESTING; PASSERINE; SALMONID; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FINCH; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; TROUT;

ANIMALS; FINCHES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; INSECTS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TROUT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CALLIBAETIS FERRUGINEUS; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEUCOSTICTE; LEUCOSTICTE TEPHROCOTIS DAWSONI; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PASSERIFORMES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77955457952     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1974.1     Document Type: Article

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