Comparing food-web impacts of a native invertebrate and an invasive fish as predators in small floodplain wetlands

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-382

  Ho, Susie S ^a   Bond, Nick R ^a   Lake, P Sam ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisops; Gambusia; prey preference; top down control; trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; CHLOROPHYLL A; COEXISTENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; NATIVE SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TELEOST; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WETLAND; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

ALGAE; ANISOPS; COPEPODA; GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI; INVERTEBRATA; NOTONECTIDAE; OSTRACODA; POECILIIDAE; SIMOCEPHALUS;

EID: 79955580042     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF10222     Document Type: Article

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