Habitat stability and predation pressure influence learning and memory in populations of three-spined sticklebacks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 935-942

  Brydges, Nichola M ^a   Heathcote, Robert J P ^a   Braithwaite, Victoria A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ecology; Gasterosteus aculeatus; learning; memory; three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LEARNING; MEMORY; PREDATION RISK; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 39449135367     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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