Patch leaving decision rules in parasitoids: Do they use sequential decisional sampling?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-155

  Pierre, Jean Sébastien ^a   Van Baaren, Joan ^a   Boivin, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Government of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian decision; Optimal foraging; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PARASITOID; PATCH USE;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0038824946     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0617-0     Document Type: Article

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