Animal Prey Defenses

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 189-194

  Jeschke, J M ^a   Laforsch, C ^b   Tollrian, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Armor; Camouflage; Constitutive defenses; Cost benefit analysis; Defense benefits; Defense costs; Density dependence; Foraging theory; Inducible defenses; Permanent defenses; Phenotypic plasticity; Predator prey systems; Steps of the predation cycle; Warning signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938585322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00858-2     Document Type: Chapter

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