Prey experience of predation influences mortality rates at settlement in a coral reef fish, Pomacentrus amboinensis |
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| Authors: | M. I. McCormick&dagger , T. H. Holmes&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Previous exposure to predators influenced the survival immediately after settlement in a coral reef damselfish, Pomacentrus amboinensis . Rapid learning of antipredator behaviour may in part have driven the rapid increase in survival in the days following this critical transition. |
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| Keywords: | antipredator behaviour coral reef fish naïvety selective predation settlement |
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