Group foraging revisited: information sharing or producer-scrounger game?

American Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 738-743

  Beauchamp, G ^a,b   Glraldeau, L A ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; GROUP FORAGING; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0030419121     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285951     Document Type: Review

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