Shifting the balance between foraging and predator avoidance: The importance of food distribution for a schooling pelagic forager

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 467-475

  Ryer, Clifford H ^a   Olla, Bori L ^a  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish behavior; Risk balancing; Shoaling; Swimming speed; Theragra chalcogramma; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANOPLOPOMA FIMBRIA; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 0031824519     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007433014921     Document Type: Article

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