Herbivory of omnivorous fish shapes the food web structure of a Chinese tropical eutrophic lake: Evidence from stable isotope and fish gut content analyses

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Gao, Jian ^a,b   Zhong, Ping ^a   Ning, Jiajia ^a   Liu, Zhengwen ^a,c   Jeppesen, Erik ^d,e  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research   (China)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Food web structure; Herbivory; Omnivore; Stable isotope analysis; Tropical lake

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; ECOLOGY; FISH; ISOTOPES; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; TROPICS;

FOOD WEBS; HERBIVORY; OMNIVORE; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL LAKES;

MEATS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FISH; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MACROPHYTE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OMNIVORY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; HUIZHOU;

CARASSIUS; CARASSIUS CARASSIUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 85011305589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9010069     Document Type: Article

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