dc.contributor.author | Balcombe, SR | |
dc.contributor.author | Bunn, SE | |
dc.contributor.author | McKenzie-Smith, FJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, PM | |
dc.contributor.editor | J.F. Craig | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T11:43:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T11:43:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.date.modified | 2009-12-04T05:19:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-1112 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2005.00858.x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4425 | |
dc.description.abstract | The fish assemblages of an arid zone floodplain river, Cooper Creek, Queensland, Australia, were sampled during two dry periods in isolated waterholes and on the inundated floodplain during the early and late phase of a major flood event. Diets were described for nine native species and compared within and between dry and flood periods. In the dry season, when fishes were restricted to waterholes, diets were characteristically simple with narrow diet breadths. Movement onto the floodplain during flooding clearly increased feeding opportunities, with greater diet breadths evident in all species. Despite obvious potential for terrestrial inputs, diets tended to be dominated by aquatic resources in both the waterholes and on the floodplain. Stomach fullness, however, varied little between dry season waterhole and floodplain samples. Fish appear to feed on potentially lower value resources such as detritus and calanoid copepods during the dry season, when waterholes are isolated and food resources were limited. They were then able to capitalize on the "boom" of aquatic production and more diverse food resources associated with episodic flood events. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
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dc.format.extent | 223126 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | |
dc.publisher.place | Oxford, UK | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0022-1112 | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1552 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 1567 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Fish Biology | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 67 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Ecology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Zoology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Fisheries sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3103 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3109 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3005 | |
dc.title | Variability of fish diets between dry and flood periods in an arid zone floodplain river | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2005 Blackwell Publishing. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.] | |
gro.date.issued | 2005 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Bunn, Stuart E. | |