Predator chemicals induce changes in mayfly life history traits: A whole-stream manipulation

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 612-618

  Peckarsky, Barbara L ^a,b   McIntosh, Angus R ^b,c   Taylor, Brad W ^b,d   Dahl, Jonas ^b,e  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical induction; Field experiment; Life history traits; Mayflies; Nonconsumptive effects; Predation; Scale; Size at emergence; Streams; Trout

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; INDUCED RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAYFLY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SIZE AT MATURITY; STREAM;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

BAETIDAE; BAETIS; BAETIS BICAUDATUS; EPHEMEROPTERA; FONTINALIS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0001069578     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0612:PCICIM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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