Risk-taking in stickleback fishes faced with different predatory threats 1

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 246-251

  Godin, Jean Guy J ^a   Valdron Clark, Kyla A ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antipredation; Armour; Behaviour; Fish; Gasterosteidae; Predation risk; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; GASTEROSTEIDAE; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES; PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0001208924     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682403     Document Type: Article

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