Size-dependent ontogenetic diet shifts to piscivory documented from stable isotope analyses in an introduced population of largemouth bass

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-266

  Yasuno, Natsuru ^a,d   Chiba, Yuki ^a   Shindo, Kentaro ^b   Fujimoto, Yasufumi ^b   Shimada, Tetsuo ^b   Shikano, Shuichi ^a   Kikuchi, Eisuke ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Prefectural Izunuma Uchinuma Environmental Foundation   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d Sendai City Hall ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Introduced fish; Largemouth bass; Length frequency analysis; Ontogenetic diet shifts; Piscivory; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING SEASON; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIETARY SHIFT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; HOME RANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; JUVENILE; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PISCIVORY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZOOPLANKTON;

HONSHU; JAPAN; LAKE IZUNUMA-UCHINUMA; MIYAGI; NORTH AMERICA; TOHOKU;

CYPRINIDAE; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES;

EID: 84855343043     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9911-2     Document Type: Article

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