Northern pike (Esox lucius) in a warming lake: changes in population size and individual condition in relation to prey abundance

• Published in: Hydrobiologia
• Main Authors: Winfield, Ian J., James, J. Ben, Fletcher, Janice M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Ecology and Environment; Arctic; English Lake; Arctic charr; Climate change; Esox lucius; Northern pike; Salvelinus alpinus
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/2372/; http://www.springerlink.com/content/u513381812373084/?p=d1979d0e922e45438734d8f6bdb505fd&pi=3; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-9264-1

Climate change is anticipated to have differential effects on the salmonid and percid-cyprinid components of lake fish communities, which may in turn impact the foraging conditions and so population biology of top aquatic predators including northern pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus). Since the 1940s, ext...