Rate-maximizing optimality models predict when oystercatchers exploit a cohort of the bivalve Scrobicularia plana over a 7-year time span

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 150-158

  Wanink, Jan H ^a,c   Zwarts, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Haematopus ostralegus; Predicted prey mortality; Prey depletion; Random search model

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; GROWTH; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; TIDAL FLAT;

WADDEN SEA;

AVES; BIVALVIA; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS; SCROBICULARIA; SCROBICULARIA PLANA;

EID: 0035076149     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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