Context and control: Behavioural ecology experiments in the laboratory

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-123

  Campbell, Dana L M ^a   Weiner, Susan A ^b   Starks, Philip T ^b   Hauber, Mark E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650695311     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0204     Document Type: Article

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