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Habitat-choice interactions between pike predators and perch prey depend on water transparency

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Summary, in English

A mesocosm experiment indicated that water transparency influenced antipredator behaviour in young-of-the-year perch Perca fluviatilis, which partly contradicts another study by showing that high transparency decreases rather than increases perch antipredatory use of vegetated habitats when predators are also free to choose habitat. The present study emphasizes the importance of simultaneously considering both prey and predator habitat-choice behaviours when evaluating predator-prey interactions in relation to water visibility.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

298-302

Publication/Series

Journal of Fish Biology

Volume

70

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Ecology

Keywords

  • Esox lucius
  • Perca
  • water transparency
  • antipredatory behaviours
  • habitat choice
  • fluviatilis

Status

Published

Research group

  • Aquatic Ecology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-1112