Do wood-grazing fishes partition their niche?: Morphological and isotopic evidence for trophic segregation in Neotropical Loricariidae

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1327-1338

  Lujan, Nathan K ^a,b   German, Donovan P ^c   Winemiller, Kirk O ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detritivory; Detritus processing; Durophagy; Functional morphology; Resource partitioning; Shredders; Wood eating; Xylivory

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; BLOOD; CELLULOSE; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; DETRITIVORY; DETRITUS; DIVERGENCE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FORAGE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; NICHE PARTITIONING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RIVER CHANNEL; SESTON; SPECIALIZATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TELEOST; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC CONTROL; TROPICAL REGION;

LORICARIIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 80855131464     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01883.x     Document Type: Article

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