All day-long: Sticklebacks effectively forage on whitefish eggs during all light conditions.

The three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus invaded Lake Contance in the 1940s and expanded in large numbers from an exclusively shoreline habitat into the pelagic zone in 2012. Stickleback abundance is very high in the pelagic zone in winter near the spawning time of pelagic whitefish Coreg...

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Main Authors: Jan Baer, Sarah Maria Gugele, Joachim Bretzel, J Tyrell DeWeber, Alexander Brinker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255497