Body size and food-patch finding in a stickleback shoal

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 687-689

  Peuhkuri, N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Food finding; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Size; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0032168136     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1998.0728     Document Type: Article

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