Invasive Mussels Alter the Littoral Food Web of a Large Lake: Stable Isotopes Reveal Drastic Shifts in Sources and Flow of Energy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Ozersky, Ted ^a,c   Evans, David O ^a   Barton, David R ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; DREISSENA; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOOD WEB; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE; LITTORAL; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); SECONDARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS);

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOMASS; BIVALVIA; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

DREISSENIDAE;

EID: 84871303427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051249     Document Type: Article

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