Parental provisioning in a variable environment: Evaluation of three foraging currencies and a state variable model

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 399-417

  Welham, Clive V J ^a,b   Beauchamp, Guy ^a,c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Black terns; Dynamic programming; Optimal foraging currency; Parental behavior; Provisioning; State variable model; Stochastic variation

Indexed keywords

BLACK TERN; MODELLING; PARENTAL PROVISIONING; PROVISIONING BEHAVIOUR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT;

CHLIDONIAS; CHLIDONIAS NIGER; LARIDAE;

EID: 0030881324     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018480723094     Document Type: Article

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