Cross-population responses to conspecific chemical alarm cues in wild Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata: Evidence for local conservation of cue production

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-147

  Brown, Grant E ^a   Elvidge, Chris K ^a   Macnaughton, Camille J ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CYPRINID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOLATED POPULATION; RIVER WATER; WILD POPULATION;

ARIPO RIVER; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; PISCES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 76149110127     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z09-127     Document Type: Article

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