Risk-sensitive foraging: The effect of relative variability

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 663-669

  Shafir, Sharoni ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0034058678     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880323.x     Document Type: Review

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