Behavioural responses to conspecific disturbance chemicals enhance survival of juvenile brook charr, salvelinus fontinalis, during encounters with predators

Behaviour

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1099-1109

  Mirza, Reehan S ^a   Chivers, Douglas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alarm cue; Brook charr; Disturbance cues; Northern pike; Survival benefit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036766772     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685390260437272     Document Type: Article

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