Chemosensory assessment of predation risk by fishes : ecological and social factors affecting learning and use of heterospecific alarm cues
Throughout their lives, prey organisms must balance the tradeoff between fitness-related activities and the risk of predation. To successfully mediate such tradeoffs, prey must have an accurate method to gauge current predation risk. For many aquatic organisms, the use of chemosensory information ha...
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University of Saskatchewan
2006
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| Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-04262006-150527/ |