Predation: Compensation and Context Dependence

Atlantic Salmon Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-220

  Ward, Darren M ^a   Hvidsten, Nils A ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon, running a lifelong gauntlet of predation risk; Atlantic salmon, vulnerable to predators at every stage of their incredible life cycle; Context dependent predation; Functional response, predation rate number of salmon consumed, depending on predator number; Life cycle of atlantic salmon complex and variable; Major documented predators of atlantic salmon by habitat and predator type; Post smolts at sea, predation on salmon in open ocean difficulty in detecting, extent of predation on post smolts beyond estuaries unknown; Predation, compensation and context dependence; predation, driving individual behaviour, recruitment and population growth of atlantic salmon; Salmon fry, vulnerable to piscivorous fish from gravel nests to seek territory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958754646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327755.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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