Exploitation competition in mobile grazers: Trade-offs in use of a limited resource

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 408-425

  Schmitt, Russell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource interactions; Exploitation; Food limitation; Foraging behavior; Interference; Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; Marine gastropods; Patch use; Resource competition; Tegula; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; TEGULA; TEGULA AUREOTINCTA; TEGULA EISENI;

FOOD LIMITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RESOURCE COMPETITION;

EID: 0030404252     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265618     Document Type: Article

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