Predation of lake trout and lake whitefish embryos by crayfish: Implications of shifts in crayfish dominance in Lake Simcoe

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 113-123

  Mason, Kristine ^a,c   Evans, David O ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crayfish predation; Lake Simcoe; Lake trout eggs; Lake whitefish eggs

Indexed keywords

ALEVINS; BODY SIZES; CRAYFISH PREDATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LAKE SIMCOE; LAKE TROUT; LAKE TROUT EGGS; LAKE WHITEFISH; LAKE WHITEFISH EGGS; LAYER OF ROCKS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PREDATION RATES; THREE-LAYER;

EXPERIMENTS; GRAVEL; SHELLFISH; SUBSTRATES;

LAKES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BODY SIZE; CRAYFISH; DOMINANCE; EGG; EMBRYO; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; PELAGIC FISH; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID; VULNERABILITY;

CANADA; LAKE SIMCOE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ASTACOIDEA; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS; ORCONECTES PROPINQUUS; ORCONECTES VIRILIS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 79957933014     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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