Who Is Who: An Anomalous Predator-Prey Role Exchange between Cyprinids and Perch.

Piscivory in cyprinids (Cyprinidae) is extremely rare. Specifically, common bream (Abramis brama) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are zooplanktivorous fish in deep lentic waters. Nevertheless, we observed predation by these two cyprinids under natural conditions in the Vír Reservoir, Czech Republi...

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Main Authors: Lukáš Vejřík, Ivana Matějíčková, Jaromír Seďa, Petr Blabolil, Tomáš Jůza, Mojmír Vašek, Daniel Ricard, Josef Matěna, Jaroslava Frouzová, Jan Kubečka, Milan Říha, Martin Čech
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4898736?pdf=render