Contrasting intraspecific dietary shifts in two terapontid assemblages from Australia's wet-dry tropics

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-56

  Davis, Aaron M ^a   Pusey, Bradley J ^b   Pearson, Richard G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow regime; Ontogenetic niche; Seasonal overlap; Size related feeding; Trophic guilds

Indexed keywords

TERAPONTIDAE;

EID: 82555191089     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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