Generalist niche, specialist strategy: the diet of an Australian percichthyid.

@article{Smith2011GeneralistNS,
  title={Generalist niche, specialist strategy: the diet of an Australian percichthyid.},
  author={J. A. Smith and Lee J. Baumgartner and Iain M. Suthers and M. D. Taylor},
  journal={Journal of fish biology},
  year={2011},
  volume={78 4},
  pages={
          1183-99
        }
}
Dietary analysis revealed that an impoundment population of Australian bass Macquaria novemaculeata holds a generalist niche, but one arising from persistent individual specialization and interindividual variation. This 'individual specialist' strategy appeared adaptive, but the strength of individual specialization was largely independent of variation in diet composition, except during blooms of Daphnia sp. Diet composition and dietary overlap showed only moderate ontogenetic variation, and… 
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