Foraging under multiple costs: The importance of predation, energetic, and assessment error costs to a desert forager

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 571-579

  Meyer, Marc D ^a,b   Valone, Thomas J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; COST; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; RODENT;

CHAETODIPUS PENICILLATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033368142     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546821     Document Type: Article

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