作者: A. Rossiter
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(08)60066-5
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摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the cichlid fauna of Lake Tanganyika, least studied African Great Lakes. It places particular emphasis faunas rocky shore habitats, and explores great species diversity that may have arisen. The describes evolutionary scenarios within lake biology these fishes. Several more parsimonious explanations as to how extant is maintained are considered, examples resource partitioning among coexisting along a variety resources axes, most likely mechanism coexistence, given. also illustrates several feeding breeding habits seen both groups species. Moreover, cichlids Tanganyika offer splendid, perhaps unique, opportunities for studies ecology, behavior evolution, yet there paucity quantitative information concerning ecology evolution its flocks, such our present level knowledge insufficient which form comprehensive theories regarding factors structuring communities.