Long-term changes in the diet of pike (Esox lucius), the top aquatic predator in a changing Windermere

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 373-383

  Winfield, Ian J ^a   Fletcher, Janice M ^a   Ben James, J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eutrophication; Lake; Predator diet; Species introductions

Indexed keywords

CYPRINIDAE; ESOCIDAE; ESOX LUCIUS; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; PERCIDAE; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84855352031     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02607.x     Document Type: Article

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