Specific Niche Characteristics Facilitate the Invasion of an Alien Fish Invader in Boreal Streams
We studied the ecological niche relations of native stream fish and an alien invader, brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), to examine if brook trout had located an underused environmental niche in our boreal study system. In both study years (1994 versus 2004), we found brook trout to have the most...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2012-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Ecology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/813016 |