Freshwater snails alter habitat use in response to predation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 747-756

  Turner, Andrew M ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; GASTROPOD; HABITAT USE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PUMPKINSEED; SNAIL;

USA, MICHIGAN;

LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; PHYSELLA;

EID: 0029731099     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0079     Document Type: Article

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