Mass-dependent predation risk and lethal dolphin-porpoise interactions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1625, 2007, Pages 2587-2593

  MacLeod, R ^a   MacLeod, C D ^b   Learmonth, J A ^b   Jepson, P D ^c   Reid, R J ^d   Deaville, R ^c   Pierce, G J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy reserves; Phocoena phocoena; Starvation risk; Starvation predation risk trade off; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DOLPHIN; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FAT RESERVE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PORPOISE; PREDATION RISK; STARVATION;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEEDING; FLYING; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 34848829860     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0786     Document Type: Article

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