Feeding habit and food partitioning in a stream fish community of Western Ghats, India

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-60

  Johnson, Jeyaraj Antony ^a   Arunachalam, Muthukumarasamy ^b  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Diet breadth; Diet overlap; Feeding ecology; Stream fishes

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYPRINID; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HABITAT TYPE; INVERTEBRATE; SPECIALIZATION; STREAM;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

ALGAE; BARBODES; CRUSTACEA; CYPRINIDAE; DANIO AEQUIPINNATUS; GARRA MULLYA; HEXAPODA; HYPSELOBARBUS CURMUCA; HYPSELOBARBUS DOBSONI; HYPSELOBARBUS DUBIUS; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; PUNTIUS; PUNTIUS BIMACULATUS; PUNTIUS DORSALIS; PUNTIUS FILAMENTOSUS; RASBORA DANICONIUS;

EID: 82555165039     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9889-9     Document Type: Article

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