Guarded resources: The effect of intruder number on the tactics and success of defenders and intruders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-94

  Chapman, Matthew R ^b   Kramer, Donald L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING SUCCESS; ZEBRAFISH;

BRACHYDANIO RERIO; DANIO AEQUIPINNATUS; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0030472649     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0154     Document Type: Article

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