No evidence that stickleback spines directly increase risk of predation by an invertebrate predator

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-198

  Mobley, Kenyon B ^a,b   Ruiz, Rocio Colas ^a   Johansson, Frank ^a,c   Englund, Göran ^a   Bokma, Folmer ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aeshna; Dragonfly larvae; Morphological defence; Predation; Prey capture; Pungitius; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879622160     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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