Dietary plasticity of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) facilitates coexistence with competitively superior European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 558-568

  Eloranta, Antti P ^a   Siwertsson, Anna ^b   Knudsen, Rune ^b   Amundsen, Per Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diet; Resource partitioning; Stable isotope analysis; Subarctic lakes; Trophic niche

Indexed keywords

COREGONUS LAVARETUS; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; THYMALLUS THYMALLUS;

EID: 80054041356     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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