Longer food chains and crowded niche space: Effects of multiple invaders on desert stream food web structure

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 439-452

  Walsworth, Timothy E ^a,b   Budy, Phaedra ^a   Thiede, Gary P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Growth; Non native species; Novel predators; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

CATOSTOMUS DISCOBOLUS; CATOSTOMUS LATIPINNIS; GILA ROBUSTA; PISCES;

EID: 84878684925     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eff.12038     Document Type: Article

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