Juvenile convict cichlids (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus) allocate foraging and antipredator behaviour in response to temporal variation in predation risk

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-144

  Foam, Patricia E ^a   Mirza, Reehan S ^a   Chivers, Douglas P ^b   Brown, Grant E ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical alarm cues; Convict cichlids; Foraging; Predator avoidance; Risk allocation; Temporal variation; Threat sensitive trade offs

Indexed keywords

ARCHOCENTRUS NIGROFASCIATUS; CICHLIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

EID: 24344439389     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539053627631     Document Type: Article

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