Modes of Competition: Adding and Removing Brown Trout in the Wild to Understand the Mechanisms of Density-Dependence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kaspersson, Rasmus ^a   Sundström, Fredrik ^a,b   Bohlin, Torgny ^a   Johnsson, Jörgen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BROWN TROUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEASHORE; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMONIDAE;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84877013569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062517     Document Type: Article

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