Patch exploitation in a producer-scrounger system: Test of a hypothesis using flocks of spice finches (Lonchura punctulata)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 54-59

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

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

Author keywords

competition intensity; patch exploitation; producer scrounger system; search time; spice finch

Indexed keywords

LONCHURA PUNCTULATA;

MARGINAL VALUE THEOREM; PATCH EXPLOITATION; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER SYSTEM; SCROUNGER; SPICE FINCH;

EID: 0030618892     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/8.1.54     Document Type: Article

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