Spectral composition and visual foraging in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteidae: Gasterosteus aculeatus L.): Elucidating the role of ultraviolet wavelengths

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 359-368

  Rick, Ingolf P ^a   Bloemker, Dominique ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color vision; Foraging behaviour; Light environment; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CRUSTACEAN; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FILTER; FINFISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HOME RANGE; LIGHT EFFECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

DAPHNIA MAGNA; GASTEROSTEIDAE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84855765635     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01796.x     Document Type: Article

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