Depletion of seed patches by Merriam's kangaroo rats: Are GUD assumptions met?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 334-343

  Price, M V ^a   Correll, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Departure rule; Desert rodents; Gain curves; Giving up density; Heteromyidae; Marginal value theorem; Optimal foraging model; Patch use; Resource depletion; Systematic search

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRANIVORY; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; RODENT;

EID: 0034864420     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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