Acute and chronic increases in predation risk affect the territorial behaviour of juvenile Atlantic salmon in the wild

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-99

  Kim, Jae Woo ^a   Wood, Jacquelyn L A ^a   Grant, James W A ^a   Brown, Grant E ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Damage released chemical alarm cue; Home range; Optimality; Population regulation; Salmo salar; Space use; Temporal scale; Territory size; Threat sensitive trade off; Young of the year

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; HOME RANGE; JUVENILE; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATION RISK; SALMONID; SPACE USE; STREAMWATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRITORIALITY; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 78650180635     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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