Seasonal Trophic Niche Shift and Cascading Effect of a Generalist Predator Fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Jun ^a   Wen, Zhourui ^b   Gong, Zhijun ^c   Zhang, Min ^d   Xie, Ping ^a   Hansson, Lars Anders ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b Hubei Fishery Science Institute   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BENTHIVORY; BENTHOS; BODY SIZE; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; FORAGING; GRAZING; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAKE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PELTEOBAGRUS FULVIDRACO; PISCIVORY; PLANKTIVORE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATION; PREDATION PRESSURE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHRIMP; SUMMER; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOBENTHOS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CATFISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS;

INVERTEBRATA; PELTEOBAGRUS FULVIDRACO;

EID: 84871318806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049691     Document Type: Article

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