Influence of body size and prey type on the willingness of age-0 fish to forage under predation risk

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 969-975

  Parkos III, Joseph J ^a,b   Wahl, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BENTHOS; BODY SIZE; DIETARY SHIFT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; LARVA; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PISCIVORY; PREDATION RISK; PREY AVAILABILITY; VULNERABILITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PISCES;

EID: 79954561043     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-098.1     Document Type: Article

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