Functional strategies drive community assembly of stream fishes along environmental gradients and across spatial scales

Oecologia

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 545-559

  Troia, Matthew J ^a,b   Gido, Keith B ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental filtering; Feeding; Locomotion; Prairie streams; Reproductive life history

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RIVER; SWIMMING; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; KANSAS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCTION; RIVERS; SWIMMING; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84925482264     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3178-1     Document Type: Article

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