Agonistic behaviours and movement in the signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus: Can dominance interactions influence crayfish size-class distributions in streams?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1495-1504

  Harrison, Megan L ^a   Hoover, Trent M ^a   Richardson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH KINETICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CRAYFISH; JUVENILES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTIONS; SIZE CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS;

BIODIVERSITY;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; CRAYFISH; DOMINANCE; HABITAT SELECTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MOVEMENT; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; STREAM; STREAM CHANNEL;

ASTACOIDEA; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS;

EID: 33846673370     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-141     Document Type: Article

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