Assessing the ideal free distribution: Do guppies use aggression as public information about patch quality?

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 737-746

  Koops, Marten A ^a,b   Abrahams, Mark V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CYPRINID; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PATCH USE;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0032822861     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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