Low-level copper exposures increase visibility and vulnerability of juvenile coho salmon to cutthroat trout predators

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1460-1471

  McIntyre, Jenifer K ^a,c   Baldwin, David H ^b   Beauchamp, David A ^a   Scholz, Nathaniel L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm behavior; Coho salmon; Copper; Cutthroat trout; Olfaction; Predation; Skin extract; Sublethal; survival

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CHEMORECEPTION; CONSPECIFIC; COPPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; JUVENILE; OLFACTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID; SKIN; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURFACE WATER; SURVIVAL; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; VISIBILITY; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84864131903     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2001.1     Document Type: Article

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