Risk of predation as a promoting factor of species divergence in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-203

  Doucette, Lisa I ^a,b,c   Skúlason, Skúli ^a   Snorrason, Sigurdur S ^b  

^a Holar College   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Antipredator behaviour; Apparent competition; Inspection; Schooling; Shoaling; Speciation; Startle response; Sympatric

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; PREDATION; RISK;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES;

EID: 2942750407     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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