The sensory ecology of nonconsumptive predator effects

American Naturalist

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 141-157

  Weissburg, Marc ^a   Smee, Delbert L ^b   Ferner, Matthew C ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance behavior; Environmental gradient; Information transfer; Olfaction; Predator prey interaction; Sensory stressor; Traitmediated interaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SENSATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SENSATION;

EID: 84904816215     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676644     Document Type: Article

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