Anchor down or hunker down: An experimental study on zebra mussels' response to predation risk from crayfish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 543-548

  Czarnoleski, Marcin ^a   Müller, Tomasz ^a   Kierat, Justyna ^a   Gryczkowski, Landon ^a   Chybowski, Łucjan ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antipredator strategy; Bivalve; Byssal attachment; Crayfish; Dreissena polymorpha; Filter feeding; Inducible defence; Predation; Risk assessment; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIVALVE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; CRAYFISH; CYPRINID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER FEEDER; INDUCED RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLITE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATION RISK; PREY LOCATION; SHELTER; SUBSTRATE; TRADE-OFF;

ASTACOIDEA; BIVALVIA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; ORCONECTES LIMOSUS; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 80051663605     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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