The social cost of shoaling covaries with predation risk in nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, populations

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 575-580

  Herczeg, Gábor ^a   Gonda, Abigél ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

cost; evolution; grouping; growth; nine spined stickleback; predation; Pungitius pungitius; schooling; shoaling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POND; PREDATION RISK; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; TELEOST;

PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 59849122067     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.023     Document Type: Article

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