Use of techniques from foraging theory to quantify the cost of predation for benthic fishes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1778-1790

  Polivka, Karl M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIOENERGETICS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PERCIFORM; PREDATION RISK; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SURVIVAL; ZOOBENTHOS;

COTTIDAE; COTTUS ALEUTICUS; COTTUS ASPER; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOCOTTUS; LEPTOCOTTUS ARMATUS; PISCES;

EID: 38349029228     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-026.1     Document Type: Article

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