Competitive interactions between invasive nile tilapia and native fish: The potential for altered trophic exchange and modification of food webs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Martin, Charles W ^a,b   Valentine, Marla M ^a   Valentine, John F ^a,b  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; ESTUARY; FISH; FOOD WEB; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARGEMOUTH BASS; LEPOMIS MINIATUS; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; SPECIES INVASION; SURVIVAL; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TILAPIA;

ANIMALIA; LEPOMIS MINIATUS; MICROPTERUS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; TILAPIA;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TILAPIA;

EID: 78650988468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014395     Document Type: Article

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