Foraging in a hierarchical patch system

American Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 603-613

  Fauchald, Per ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Foraging model; Fractal; Information processing; Random walk; Scale

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PATCH USE;

EID: 0032792763     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303203     Document Type: Article

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