Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-84

  Cucherousset, Julien ^a,b,c   Acou, Anthony ^d   Blanchet, Simon ^b,c,e   Britton, J Robert ^a   Beaumont, William R C ^f   Gozlan, Rodolphe E ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^f GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disruptive selection; Interindividual variability; Niche segregation; Resource polymorphism; Stable isotope analyses

Indexed keywords

DIET; EEL; EXPLOITATION; FITNESS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESOURCE USE; RIVER BANK; SELECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TELEMETRY; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EEL; FOOD CHAIN; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; EELS; FOOD CHAIN; HEAD; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 80051666510     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1974-4     Document Type: Article

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