Multiple predator effects and native prey responses to two non-native Everglades cichlids

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-385

  Porter Whitaker, Ashley E ^a   Rehage, Jennifer S ^b   Liston, Shawn E ^c   Loftus, William F ^d  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

^d Aquatic Research and Communication LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Fishes; Functional traits; Invasion; Multiple predators; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CICHLASOMA UROPHTHALMUS; CICHLIDAE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; HEMICHROMIS BIMACULATUS; JORDANELLA; LUCANIA GOODEI; PALAEMONETES PALUDOSUS; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PISCES;

EID: 84861939413     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2012.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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