Exploration of optimal giving-up time in uncertain environment: A sit-and-wait forager

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-327

  Nishimura, Kinya ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HETEROGENEITY; OPTIMIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033533062     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1999.0961     Document Type: Article

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