Assessing the food web impacts of an anadromous Arctic charr introduction to a sub-Arctic watershed using stable isotopes

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 302-314

  Murdoch, A ^a   Klein, G ^b   Doidge, D W ^b   Power, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Nunavik Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Diet; Feeding niche; Food web interactions; Salvelinus alpinus; Trophic redundancy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CYPRINID; DIET; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOOD WEB; NICHE; SALMONID; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WATERSHED;

CANADA; NUNAVIK; QUEBEC [CANADA];

COUESIUS; COUESIUS PLUMBEUS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 84880326908     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fme.12012     Document Type: Article

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