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Fish-Habitat Interactions Mediated via Ontogenetic Niche Shifts

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The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes in Lakes

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 131))

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A fundamental characteristic of fish is that individuals increase in size by several orders of magnitude over their ontogeny (Werner, 1988). This increase in size generally means that the individual changes its food resource use during development. The change in resource use can take many different routes involving changes between carnivory and herbivory/detritivory (Gerking, 1994). Commonly, an increase in prey size eaten is observed in connection with the increase in consumer size, which potentially involves a change from zooplanktivory, to ben-thivory, and ultimately, to piscivory (Persson, 1988; Osenberg et al., 1994; Olson et al., 1995). These changes in resource use are, in turn, generally associated with habitat shifts in which complex habitats such as vegetated areas of lakes may function both as a resource base and as a refuge from prédation (Heck and Crowder, 1991; Mittelbach and Osenberg, 1993;Persson, 1993; Olson et al., 1995; Persson and Eklöv, 1995).

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Persson, L., Crowder, L.B. (1998). Fish-Habitat Interactions Mediated via Ontogenetic Niche Shifts. In: Jeppesen, E., Søndergaard, M., Søndergaard, M., Christoffersen, K. (eds) The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes in Lakes. Ecological Studies, vol 131. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0695-8_1

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