Group foraging, patch exploitation time and the finder's advantage

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-39

  Rita, Hannu ^a   Ranta, Esa ^a   Peuhkuri, Nina ^a  

^a Division of Population Biology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Assorted foraging groups; Group foraging; Marginal value theorem; Producers; Scroungers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031055642     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050313     Document Type: Article

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