Provenance and threat-sensitive predator avoidance patterns in wild-caught Trinidadian guppies

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 699-706

  Brown, Grant E ^a   MacNaughton, Camille J ^a   Elvidge, Chris K ^a   Ramnarine, Indar ^b   Godin, Jean Guy J ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical alarm cue; Guppy; Long term predation risk; Population differences; Predator avoidance; Threat sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL CUE; CYPRINID; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; PROVENANCE; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

ARIPO RIVER; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 61349100093     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0703-4     Document Type: Article

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