Foraging trade-offs and resource patchiness: Theory and experiments with a freshwater snail community

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 304-312

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Wilson, Will G ^b   Richards, Shane A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exploitation competition; Herbivore coexistence; Pond snails; Resource structure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; PATCHINESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0034872393     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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