Dietary niche partitioning in a piscivorous fish guild in response to stocking of an additional competitor - The role of diet specialisation

Limnologica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-64

  Schulze, Torsten ^a,b   Dörner, Hendrik ^a,d   Baade, Uli ^c   Hölker, Franz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Competition; Intraguild predation; Niche partitioning; Species segregation; Whole lake experiment

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIETARY OVERLAP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; GENERALIST; GUILD STRUCTURE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIALIST;

EID: 81455154443     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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