The pitfall with PIT tags: Marking freshwater bivalves for translocation induces short-term behavioural costs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 341-346

  Wilson, Conor D ^a   Arnott, Gareth ^b   Reid, Neil ^a   Roberts, Dai ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burrowing; Captive breeding; Ex situ conservation; Freshwater mussel; Handling; Margaritifera margaritifera; Monitoring; Stress; Tagging; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIVALVE; BURROWING; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; PREDATION RISK; SUBSTRATE; TAGGING; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MARGARITIFERA MARGARITIFERA;

EID: 78650192127     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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