The diet of Nile perch, Lates niloticus (L.) after resurgence of haplochromine cichlids in the Mwanza Gulf of Lake Victoria

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 682, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-119

  Kishe Machumu, Mary A ^a,b   Witte, Frans ^b   Wanink, Jan H ^b,c   Katunzi, Egid F B ^a  

^a TANZANIA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Ecological Research and Consultancy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Caridina nilotica; Dietary shift; Haplochromines; Juvenile Nile perch; Rastrineobola argentea

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CANNIBALISM; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; JUVENILE; PERCIFORM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; MWANZA [TANZANIA]; MWANZA GULF; TANZANIA;

CARIDINA NITOTICA; CICHLIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LATES NILOTICUS; RASTRINEOBOLA ARGENTEA;

EID: 84856221060     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0822-1     Document Type: Article

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