The response of prey to the risk of predation: Proximate cues for refuging juvenile fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-115

  Eklöv, Peter ^a,b   Persson, Lennart ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESOX LUCIUS; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

HABITAT SWITCH; NORTHERN PIKE; PERCH; PREDATION RISK; ROACH;

EID: 0029669021     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0009     Document Type: Article

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