Treatment effects in a stream fish enclosure experiment: Influence of predation rate and prey movements

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 519-528

  Englund, Göran ^a   Olsson, Tommy ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; PREDATION RATE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY MOVEMENT; SCULPIN;

COTTUS GOBIO;

EID: 0030303293     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545941     Document Type: Article

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