Shoaling behaviour enhances risk of predation from multiple predator guilds in a marine fish

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 387-397

  Ford, John R ^a   Swearer, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem stability; Multiple predator effects; Non additive mortality; Predator prey theory; Shoaling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; FISH; JUVENILE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MORTALITY; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ZOOPLANKTON;

AUSTRALIA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

TRACHINOPS;

EID: 84878106873     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2508-4     Document Type: Article

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