Unequal competition between three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, L., encountering sequential prey

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 689-698

  Gill, Andrew B ^a   Hart, Paul J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ENCOUNTER RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREY ENCOUNTER; THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK;

EID: 0029666821     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0072     Document Type: Article

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