Mechanisms of coexistence of optimal foragers as determinants of local abundances and distributions of desert granivores

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 361-374

  Kotler, Burt P ^a   Brown, Joel S ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dietary partitioning; Foraging theory; Granivores; Negev Desert; Optimal patch use; Robert MacArthur

Indexed keywords

ALAUDIDAE; AVES; DASYURUS; GALERIDA CRISTATA; GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS ALLENBYI; GERBILLUS DASYURUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0000539239     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383285     Document Type: Article

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