Group foraging, gain and the finder's advantage

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 515-521

  Rita, Hannu ^a   Ranta, Esa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MODELING; PATCH USE;

EID: 0031874371     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546372     Document Type: Article

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