Essays about: "habitat-specific adaptation"

Found 1 essay containing the words habitat-specific adaptation.

  1. 1. Selective predation by perch (Perca fluviatilis) on a freshwater isopod, in two macrophyte substrates.

    University essay from Ekologi

    Author : Magnus Andersson; [2010]
    Keywords : fish predation; perch; Asellus aquaticus; divergent selection; habitat-specific adaptation; background matching.;

    Abstract : Recent studies show that populations of the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus L. can rapidly become locally differentiated when submerged stonewort (Chara spp.) vegetation expands in lakes. In the novel Chara habitat, isopods become lighter pigmented and smaller than in the ancestral reed stands. READ MORE