Size- and food-dependent growth drives patterns of competitive dominance along productivity gradients

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 847-857

  Huss, Magnus ^a   Gardmark, Anna ^a   Van Leeuwen, Anieke ^b   De Roos, Andre M ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community structure; Competition; Diet shifts; Food dependent growth; Herring; Productivity; Size structure; Size dependent mortality; Sprat

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLUPEOID; COEXISTENCE; DIETARY SHIFT; DOMINANCE; FISHERY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; GUILD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARINE RESOURCE; MORTALITY; ONTOGENY; SIZE EFFECT; ZOOBENTHOS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEIDAE; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 84861357794     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1254.1     Document Type: Article

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