Detection of predators and habitat choice by small bluegills: Effects of turbidity and alternative prey

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-103

  Miner, Jeffrey G ^a,b   Stein, Roy A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPOMIS SPP.; DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES;

GIZZARD SHAD; LARGEMOUTH BASS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REACTION DISTANCE;

EID: 0029657746     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1996)125<0097:DOPAHC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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