Evolutionary Responses to Invasion: Cane Toad Sympatric Fish Show Enhanced Avoidance Learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Caller, Georgina ^a   Brown, Culum ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANE TOAD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; MELANOTAENIA DUBOULAYI; MENTAL CAPACITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUFO MARINUS; FISHES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

BUFO MARINUS; MELANOTAENIA DUBOULAYI; MELANOTAENIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872774402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054909     Document Type: Article

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