Food exploitation: Searching for the optimal joining policy

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 102-106

  Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a   Beauchamp, Guy ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; COOPERATION; DYNAMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

EID: 0033105099     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01542-0     Document Type: Review

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