Timing of the diet shift from zooplankton to macroinvertebrates and size at maturity determine whether normally piscivorous fish can persist in otherwise fishless lakes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1416-1424

  Huss, Magnus ^a,b   Persson, Lennart ^a   Borcherding, Jost ^c   Heermann, Lisa ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Diet shifts; Fish; Invertebrates; Persistence

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84878661100     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12138     Document Type: Article

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