Towards a cognitive niche: Divergent foraging strategies resulting from limited cognitive ability of foraging herbivores in a spatially complex environment

BioSystems

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-68

  Beecham, J A ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Herbivore foraging; Individual based model; Niche differentiation; Simulated evolution

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; NICHE PARTITIONING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034930367     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(01)00129-0     Document Type: Article

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