Context-dependent risk tolerance of the bicolour damselfish: courtship in the presence of fish and egg predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 329-336

  Figueira, W F ^a   Lyman, S J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context dependent risk tolerance; coral reef fish; courtship; damselfish; predation; reproductive behaviour; Stegastes partitus

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; COURTSHIP; DECISION MAKING; EGG PREDATION; PARENTAL CARE; PERCIFORM; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING;

ANTHOZOA; POMACENTRIDAE; STEGASTES PARTITUS;

EID: 34547837628     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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