Direct and indirect climatic drivers of biotic interactions: Ice-cover and carbon runoff shaping Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus and brown trout Salmo trutta competitive asymmetries

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 277-287

  Ulvan, Eva M ^a,b   Finstad, Anders G ^b   Ugedal, Ola ^b   Berg, Ole Kristian ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

cesium; Climate change; Competition; Light conditions; Seasonal performance

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER;

ALLOCHTHON; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON; CATCHMENT; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; ICE COVER; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LAKE; PREDATOR; RUNOFF; SALMONID; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ICE COVER; LAKE; PHYSIOLOGY; SALMONID; SCANDINAVIA; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROUT;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRESH WATER; ICE COVER; LAKES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALMONIDAE; SCANDINAVIA; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROUT;

SCANDINAVIA;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS;

EID: 84855611448     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2074-1     Document Type: Article

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