Behavioral mechanisms underlying the refuge value of benthic habitat structure for two flatfishes with differing anti-predator strategies

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 268, Issue , 2004, Pages 231-243

  Ryer, Clifford H ^a   Stoner, Allan W ^a   Titgen, Richard H ^a  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Essential fish habitat; Habitat complexity; Pacific halibut; Predator prey interaction; Rock sole

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FLATFISH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REFUGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CRYPSIS; HIPPOGLOSSUS; HIPPOGLOSSUS STENOLEPIS; LEPIDOPSETTA; LEPIDOPSETTA POLYXYSTRA; PARAPLAGUSIA BILINEATA; PLEURONECTIFORMES;

EID: 1842578500     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps268231     Document Type: Article

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