Floating, switching, or nonswitching as different behaviours when Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) are visiting two feeding tanks

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1068-1077

  Brännäs, Eva ^a   Eriksson, Torleif ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE METHOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SALMONID;

SALMONIDAE; SALMONIFORMES; SALVELINUS ALPINUS;

EID: 0033500638     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f99-042     Document Type: Article

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