Use of shallow marginal habitat by Phoxinus phoxinus: a trade‐off between temperature and food?

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Garner, P., Clough, S., Griffiths, S. W., Deans, D., Ibbotson, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Minnows; The Minnows
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1998.tb02020.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1095-8649.1998.tb02020.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1998.tb02020.x

Fish may alter their habitat use in accordance with the profitability of differing habitat patches. During summer, in the River Frome, minnows Phoxinus phoxinus used shallows in a selective manner, preferring shallows in which water temperature was higher than the ambient river temperature. During t...