Colossal aggregations of giant alien freshwater fish as a potential biogeochemical hotspot

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Boulêtreau, Stéphanie ^a,b   Cucherousset, Julien ^a,c   Villéger, Sébastien ^a,c   Masson, Rémi ^a   Santoul, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FORAGING; GROUP DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATFISHES; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; SILURUS GLANIS;

EID: 80053578906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025732     Document Type: Article

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