Foraging costs as a defining factor for growth and asymptotic mass

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 739-751

  Stöcker, Sabine ^a   Weihs, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 0030197634     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8240(95)00368-1     Document Type: Article

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