Predator-induced life history changes: Antipredator behavior costs or facultative life history shifts?

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1116-1124

  Ball, Shelley L ^a,b   Baker, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator behavior; Chironomids; Chironomus tentans; Development rate; Facultative life history shift; Fecundity; Growth rate; Lepomis gibbosus; Life history; Nonlethal effects; Size at metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; DEVELOPMENTAL RATE; LIFE HISTORY; PUMPKINSEED SUNFISH; RISKY HABITAT;

EID: 0030417578     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265580     Document Type: Article

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