Factors causing variation in flock size: Decision making to join a foraging flock

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 361-371

  Yamaguchi, Noriyuki ^a   Yahara, Tetsukazu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional strategy; Flock size; Hunger level; Non random association; Stochastic disturbance

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; PASSERINE; STARVATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EMBERIZA; EMBERIZA ELEGANS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0038715749     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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