Influence of some potential predation risk factors and interaction between predation risk and cost of fleeing on escape by the lizard Sceloporus virgatus

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 620-629

  Cooper Jr , William E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; ECTOTHERMY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; LIZARD; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REFUGE; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTRATE;

SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958851212     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01911.x     Document Type: Article

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