Context-specific behavior: Crayfish size influences crayfish-fish interactions

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 344-351

  Keller, Troy A ^a,b,c   Moore, Paul A ^a,b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Displays; Fish initiated interactions; Interspecific encounters; Predator behavior; Prey size; Refuge use

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AMBLOPLITES RUPESTRIS; ANHINGIDAE; ASTACOIDEA; ETHEOSTOMA EXILE; ETHEOSTOMA NIGRUM; ORCONECTES VIRILIS; PERCA FLAVESCENS; AMBLOPLITES; PERCA;

EID: 0034210975     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1468076     Document Type: Article

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