Detection of conspecific alarm cues by juvenile salmonids under neutral and weakly acidic conditions: laboratory and field tests

Detection of conspecific and heterospeci

Detection of conspecific and heterospecific alarm signals by juvenile pumpkinseed under weak acidic conditions

✍ A. O. H. C. Leduc; M. K. Noseworthy; J. C. Adrian Jr; G. E. Brown 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 84 KB

Under neutral (pH 7·0) conditions, juvenile pumpkinseed __Lepomis gibbosus__ exhibited significant antipredator responses, of similar intensities, to the chemical alarm cues of conspecifics, an allopatric congener the green sunfish __Lepomis cyanellus__ and the artificial alarm cue of a sympatric pr