Depth-dependent abundance of Midas Cichlid fish (Amphilophus spp.) in two Nicaraguan crater lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 686, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 277-285

  Dittmann, Marie Theres ^a,d   Roesti, Marius ^a   Indermaur, Adrian ^a   Colombo, Marco ^a   Gschwind, Martin ^a   Keller, Isabel ^a,b   Kovac, Robin ^a   Barluenga, Marta ^c   Muschick, Moritz ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crater Lake Apoyo; Crater Lake Xilo ; Ecology; Fish density estimates; Parallel adaptive radiation; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CARRYING CAPACITY; CICHLID; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRATER LAKE; ECOTYPE; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LINE TRANSECT; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY; TAXONOMY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; LAKE APOYO; LAKE XILOA; MANAGUA [NICARAGUA]; NICARAGUA; NICARAGUA RISE;

AMPHILOPHUS; AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 84858613835     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1024-1     Document Type: Article

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