Effect of light on juvenile walleye pollock shoaling and their interaction with predators

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 167, Issue , 1998, Pages 215-226

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

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Illumination; Predator prey; Schooling; Spatial distribution; Swimming speed; Twilight hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SHOALING BEHAVIOUR;

ANIMALIA; GADIFORMES; PISCES; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 0032543692     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps167215     Document Type: Article

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