Does intraspecific size variation in a predator affect its diet diversity and top-down control of prey?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ingram, Travis ^a   Stutz, William E ^b   Bolnick, Daniel I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC SPECIES; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOTA; DIET; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

GASTEROSTEUS;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; BODY SIZE; DIET; INVERTEBRATES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 79958117290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020782     Document Type: Article

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