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Novel molecular approach demonstrates that turbid river plumes reduce predation mortality on larval fish.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2014
Carreon-Martinez Lucia B, Wellband Kyle W, Johnson Timothy B, Ludsin Stuart A, Heath Daniel D
Abstract excerpt
Turbidity associated with river plumes is known to affect the search ability of visual predators and thus can drive 'top-down' impacts on prey populations in complex ecosystems; however, traditional quantification of predator-prey relationships (i.e. stomach content analysis) often fails with larval fish due to rapid digestion rates. Herein, we use novel molecular genetic methods to quantify larval yellow perch...
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