Does vulnerability influence trade-offs made by whelks between predation risk and feeding opportunities?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 783-794

  Rochette, Rémy ^a   Himmelman, John H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; PREDATION; VULNERABILITY TRADE-OFF;

GULF OF ST LAWRENCE;

BUCCINUM UNDATUM; LEPTASTERIAS POLARIS;

EID: 0030251372     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0223     Document Type: Article

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