Threat-sensitive responses to disturbance cues in juvenile convict cichlids and rainbow trout

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-180

  Vavrek, Meaghan A ^a   Brown, Grant E ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CICHLID; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; LABORATORY METHOD; ODOR; SALMONID;

ARCHOCENTRUS NIGROFASCIATUS; CICHLIDAE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 61349092856     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0302     Document Type: Article

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