The influence of current-visit experience within a prey patch on patch persistence

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-25

  Roche, John P ^a   Timberlake, William ^a   Glanz, William E ^b   Stubbs, D Alan ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Averaging models; Foraging; Patch leaving hypotheses; Pigeons; Prey patches; Rock doves

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; DOVE; FEEDING; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORAGING BHEAVIOUR; GIVING-UP TIME; HOMING PIGEON; PATCH USE;

COLUMBIA LIVIA;

EID: 0032034297     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00083-1     Document Type: Article

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