Sediments, not plants, offer the preferred refuge for Daphnia against fish predation in Mediterranean shallow lakes: An experimental demonstration

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 795-802

  Nihan Tavşanoǧlu, Ülkü ^a   Idil Çakiroǧlu, Ayşe ^a   Erdoǧan, Şeyda ^a,b   Meerhoff, Mariana ^c,d   Jeppesen, Erik ^d,e,f   Beklioglu, Meryem ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BOZOK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

^f GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Fish avoidance; Horizontal migration; Vertical migration; Water level

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 84858070047     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02745.x     Document Type: Article

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