Optimal diet theory: When does it work, and when and why does it fail?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 379-390

  Sih, Andrew ^a   Christensen, Bent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; LITERATURE REVIEW; OPTIMIZATION; PREDATION;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034966011     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1592     Document Type: Article

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