Predator avoidance by coregonids: Can habitat choice be explained by size-related prey vulnerability?

Advances in Limnology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2002, Pages 183-197

  Bøhn, Thomas ^a   Amundsen, Per Arne ^a   Popova, Olga ^b   Reshetnikov, Yuri S ^b   Staldvik, Frode J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BODY SIZE; HABITAT SELECTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SALMONID;

EURASIA; PASVIK RIVER;

ALBULA; COREGONUS; COREGONUS ALBULA; COREGONUS LAVARETUS; ESOX; ESOX LUCIUS; LOTA LOTA; PERCA; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; SALMO; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0242433594     PISSN: 00711128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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