Water temperature affects aggressive interactions in a Neotropical cichlid fish

ABSTRACT Changes in water temperature may affect the aggressive behavior of aquatic organisms, such as fish, either by changing some physiological mechanisms or by increasing the probability of encounters between individuals as a result of variation in their swimming activity. In our study, we evalu...

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Main Authors: Manuela L. Brandão, Gisele Colognesi, Marcela C. Bolognesi, Roselene S. Costa-Ferreira, Thaís B. Carvalho, Eliane Gonçalves-de-Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia 2018-03-01
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252018000100212&lng=en&tlng=en