Comparative feeding ecology of invasive Ponto-Caspian gobies

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 703, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-131

  Brandner, Joerg ^a   Auerswald, Karl ^a   Cerwenka, Alexander F ^a,b   Schliewen, Ulrich K ^b   Geist, Juergen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exotic species; Food web; Neogobius melanostomus; Ponticola kessleri; Stable isotopes; Trophic niche

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIETARY OVERLAP; DIETARY SHIFT; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; NICHE; OMNIVORY; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIALIZATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

DANUBE RIVER;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; DIKEROGAMMARUS; DIKEROGAMMARUS VILLOSUS; GOBIIDAE; PISCES; PONTICOLA KESSLERI;

EID: 84871407616     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1349-9     Document Type: Article

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