Producers, scroungers and foraging group structure

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 171-175

  Ranta, Esa ^a   Peuhkuri, Nina ^a   Laurila, Anssi ^a   Rita, Hannu ^a   Metcalfe, Neil B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING; GROUP STRUCTURE; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER MODEL; SCROUNGER;

EID: 0029669266     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

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