Effects of predation risk and foraging return on the diel use of vegetated habitat by two size-classes of bluegills

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 590-597

  Shoup, Daniel E ^a,b   Carlson, Robert E ^a   Heath, Robert T ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; MACROPHYTE; OPEN WATER; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; PISCES;

EID: 0038580483     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0590:EOPRAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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