The effect of risk of mortality on the foraging behaviour of animals faced with time and digestive capacity constraints

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-301

  Abrams, Peter A ^a   Schmitz, Oswald J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained diets; Foraging behaviour; Functional response; Habitat selection; Optimal diet; Predation risk; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001136537     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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