Well-informed foraging: Damage-released chemical cues of injured prey signal quality and size to predators

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 651-658

  Lonnstedt, Oona M ^a   McCormick, Mark I ^a   Chivers, Douglas P ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical alarm cue; Coral reef fish; Kleptoparasitism; Predator foraging cues; Secondary predators

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL CUE; CORAL REEF; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INJURY; KLEPTOPARASITISM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SIZE; SIGNAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; ODOR; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SKIN; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CUES; ODORS; PERCIFORMES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKIN; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; POMACENTRIDAE; POMACENTRUS AMBOINENSIS; PSEUDOCHROMIDAE; PSEUDOCHROMIS FUSCUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84856770096     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2116-8     Document Type: Article

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