The ideal free distribution with unequal competitors: The effect of modelling methods

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 243-251

  Houston, Alasdair I ^b   Lang, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY; COMPETITION; FORAGING; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; MODELLING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032125976     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0773     Document Type: Article

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