Effect of food abundance on aggressiveness and territory size of juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

How food abundance affects (1) whether or not individuals defend territories and (2) what size of territory is defended are crucial to understanding the role that territoriality plays in regulating the population size of stream-dwelling salmonids. The threshold model of feeding territoriality predicts that territorial defence will be most intense at intermediate levels of food […]