Schooling as a strategy for taxis in a noisy environment

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 503-522

  Grünbaum, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Optimal Foraging; Resource distributions; Schooling; Search strategies; Social behaviour; Taxis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FORAGING; MOVEMENT; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

ANCHOA; ANIMALIA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENGRAULIDAE; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 0031926153     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006574607845     Document Type: Article

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