Feeding dynamics, nitrogen budgets, and ecosystem role of a desert stream omnivore, Agosia chrysogaster (Pisces: Cyprinidae)

Agriculture & Biology

• Agosia chrysogaster 100%
• omnivores 58%
• Cyprinidae 56%
• deserts 44%
• ecosystems 35%
• nitrogen 27%
• fish 26%
• algae 18%
• ingestion 14%
• Ephemeroptera 13%
• periodicity 12%
• total nitrogen 11%
• nitrogen content 11%
• Sonoran Desert 8%
• food quality 6%
• recycling 5%
• assimilation (physiology) 5%
• ammonia 4%
• excretion 4%
• digestive system 4%
• feces 4%
• dates (fruit) 4%
• digestion 4%
• uptake mechanisms 3%
• insects 3%
• biomass 3%
• sampling 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• budget 39%
• desert 39%
• nitrogen 28%
• ecosystem 27%
• alga 13%
• food 10%
• mayfly 10%
• assimilation efficiency 5%
• ingestion rate 5%
• cyprinid 5%
• food quality 5%
• fish 4%
• feces 4%
• excretion 4%
• digestion 3%
• insect 3%
• creek 3%
• ammonia 3%
• recycling 3%
• biomass 2%