The introduced Micropterus salmoides in an equatorial lake: A paradoxical loser in an invasion meltdown scenario?

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3439-3448

  Britton, Robert ^a   Harper, David M ^b   Oyugi, Dalmas O ^a,d   Grey, Jonathan ^c  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Barbus paludinosus; Cyprinus carpio; Diet composition; Invasive species; Largemouth bass; Procambarus clarkii

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CRAYFISH; CYPRINID; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; DOMINANCE; FINFISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECTIVORE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONTOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

KENYA; LAKE NAIVASHA; NORTH AMERICA; RIFT VALLEY;

ASTACOIDEA; BARBUS; BARBUS PALUDINOSUS; CLARKIA; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; CYPRINUS CARPIO; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES; PROCAMBARUS; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII;

EID: 77956880406     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9742-7     Document Type: Article

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