Use of behavioural stochastic resonance by paddle fish for feeding

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6759, 1999, Pages 291-294

  Russett, David F ^a   Wilkens, Lon A ^a   Moss, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PLANKTON; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SPIKE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; PLANKTON; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0033581948     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46279     Document Type: Article

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