Are generalists pressed for time? An interspecific test of the Time-Limited Disperser Model

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1744-1755

  Prinzing, Andreas ^a,b  

^a The State Museum of Natural History Museum Karlsruhe   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arachnida; Behavioral ecology; Canopy; Constraint; Insecta; Life history; Microhabitat use; Niche breadth; Optimal foraging; Search time; Specialization; Time Limited Disperser Model

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; LIFE HISTORY; LIMITING FACTOR; MICROHABITAT; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; TIME ALLOCATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0345446025     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1744:AGPFTA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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