Does information sharing promote group foraging?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1520, 2003, Pages 1137-1141

  Sernland, Emma ^a   Olsson, Ola ^b   Holmgren, Noél M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bayesian forager; Marginal value theorem; Public information; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; INFORMATION; MODELING;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COST; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038201493     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2352     Document Type: Article

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