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- noun Plural form of
piscivore .
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Alcids can be divided into two general categories based on diet: planktivores and piscivores.
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Planktivores eat zooplankton (especially krill), while piscivores eat small fish (sometimes called “forage fish” or “bait fish”).
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Martill et al. (1998) rejected both the scavenging and mud-probing hypotheses, and regarded azhdarchids as ‘aerial piscivores or planktivores’ (p. 57).
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Edit ah, correction, evidently while primarily piscivores to a very large extent, they, will, in fact, eat other things opportunistically:
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Using meta-analysis, Paddack et al. [45] suggested declines in Caribbean fishes from several trophic groups were due to loss of coral, but were unable to detect a significant effect of habitat degradation on piscivores.
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Cichlids foraging on plankton and algae typically exhibited single-cone sensitivities peaking between 360 and 400 nm, such that they would be more sensitive to UV light than either piscivores or benthivores.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Christopher M. Hofmann et al. 2009
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Walleye are nocturnal, pelagic piscivores, which simply means they are night-feeding open-water fish-eaters.
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Species feeding on plankton or algae typically exhibited single-cone sensitivities peaking at shorter wavelengths than piscivores or benthic foragers.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Christopher M. Hofmann et al. 2009
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Previous work on the flight performance of pterosaurs has often been based on the dogmatic assumption that pterosaurs were predominantly aerial piscivores living in coastal areas
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katsufumi Sato et al. 2009
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Using meta-analysis, Paddack et al. [45] suggested declines in Caribbean fishes from several trophic groups were due to loss of coral, but were unable to detect a significant effect of habitat degradation on piscivores.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christopher D. Stallings 2009
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