Temporal prey distribution affects the competitive ability of parasitized sticklebacks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1477-1483

  Barber, Iain ^a,b   Ruxton, Graeme D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PARASITE INFESTATION;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

EID: 0032456859     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0917     Document Type: Article

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