Climatic variability in combination with eutrophication drives adaptive responses in the gills of Lake Victoria cichlids

Oecologia

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1187-1201

  van Rijssel, Jacco C ^a,b,c,d   Hecky, Robert E ^e   Kishe Machumu, Mary A ^f   Meijer, Saskia E ^a   Pols, Johan ^a   van Tienderen, Kaj M ^a   Ververs, Jan D ^a   Wanink, Jan H ^a,g   Witte, Frans ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^f TANZANIA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^g Ecological Research and Consultancy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cultural eutrophication; Hypoxia; Morphological adaptation; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLID; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOXIA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN; PERTURBATION; WIND;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

CICHLIDAE;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLID; EUTROPHICATION; GILL; LAKE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLIDS; EUTROPHICATION; GILLS; LAKES;

EID: 84987602336     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3721-3     Document Type: Article

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