Ecosystem fragmentation drives increased diet variation in an endemic livebearing fish of the Bahamas

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 3298-3308

  Araújo, Márcio S ^a   Langerhans, R Brian ^b   Giery, Sean T ^b,c   Layman, Craig A ^b,c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas mosquitofish; Food webs; Individual specialization; Niche variation; Predation; RNA DNA ratios; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906484409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1140     Document Type: Article

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