Fishing spiders, green sunfish, and a stream-dwelling water strider: Male-female conflict and prey responses to single versus multiple predator environments

Oecologia

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 258-265

  Krupa, James J ^a   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mating systems; Multiple predators; Predation risk; Water striders

Indexed keywords

PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 0032425943     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050656     Document Type: Article

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