Introduced lake trout produced a four-level trophic cascade in Yellowstone Lake

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1536-1550

  Tronstad, Lusha M ^a   Hall, Robert O ^a   Koel, Todd M ^b   Gerow, Ken G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b YELLOWSTONE CENTER FOR RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; FOOD CONSUMPTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; SALMONID; SIZE STRUCTURE; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE LAKE;

COPEPODA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII BOUVIERI; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 79954482110     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-151.1     Document Type: Article

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