Are great tits (Parus major) really optimal foragers?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 780-788

  Berec, Michal ^a   Krivan, Vlastimil ^a   Berec, Ludek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PASSERINE; PREY SELECTION;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0042071332     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z03-057     Document Type: Article

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