Flicker is part of a multi-cue response criterion in fiddler crab predator avoidance

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1219-1224

  Smolka, Jochen ^a,b   Raderschall, Chloé A ^a   Hemmi, Jan M ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Escape behaviour; Flicker; Multi cue response strategy; Sensory constraint; Uca vomeris; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYURA; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CUES; ESCAPE REACTION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUEENSLAND; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA; UCA VOMERIS;

EID: 84876119102     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.076133     Document Type: Article

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