Chemically-mediated predator-recognition learning in a marine gastropod

Ecoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 353-360

  Rochette, Rémy ^a,b   Arsenault, David J ^a   Justome, Bruno ^a   Himmelman, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MOLLUSC; PREDATION RISK;

ASTEROIDEA; BUCCINUM UNDATUM; GASTROPODA; LEPTASTERIAS POLARIS;

EID: 0032414326     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1998.11682473     Document Type: Article

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