Spatial and seasonal variability in the diet of round goby (neogobius melanostomus): Stable isotopes indicate that stomach contents overestimate the importance of dreissenids

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 573-586

  Brush, Jaclyn M ^a   Fisk, Aaron T ^a   Hussey, Nigel E ^a   Johnson, Timothy B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; DIET; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPHIC STATUS;

BAY OF QUINTE; CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; KINGSTON [ONTARIO]; LAKE ONTARIO; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AMPHIPODA; APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; DREISSENIDAE; NEOGOBIUS;

EID: 84857848512     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F2012-001     Document Type: Article

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