Risk-taking behaviour in foraging perch: does predation pressure influence age-specific boldness?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 509-517

  Magnhagen, Carin ^a   Borcherding, Jost ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

boldness; Perca fluviatilis; perch; population differences; predation risk; size specific risk taking

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CANNIBALISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINFISH; FISHING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PREDATION RISK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

PERCA FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 38649097861     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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