Tracking and predation on earthworms by the invasive terrestrial planarian Bipalium adventitium (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-334

  Fiore, Cara ^a   Tull, Jamie L ^a   Zehner, Sean ^a   Ducey, Peter K ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipalium; Earthworm; Ecology; Flatworm; Planarian; Predation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CHEMICAL CUE; EARTHWORM; FLATWORM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY LOCATION; PREY SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIPALIUM ADVENTITIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; EISENIA FOETIDA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INJURY; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PREDATION; PREY;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BIPALIUM; BIPALIUM ADVENTITIUM; EISENIA FETIDA; LUMBRICIDAE; LUMBRICUS; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; OLIGOCHAETA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TRICLADIDA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 7044237353     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(04)00138-X     Document Type: Article

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