Costs of fear: Behavioural and life-history responses to risk and their demographic consequences vary across species

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 403-413

  Lamanna, Joseph A ^a   Martin, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti predator; Behaviour; Birds; Demographic cost; Dependent offspring; Development; Growth; Life history; Predation; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEAR; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84960099534     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12573     Document Type: Letter

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