Central assumptions of predator-prey models fail in a semi-natural experimental system

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Mols, Christel M M ^a   Van Oers, Kees ^a   Witjes, Leontien M A ^a   Lessells, Catherine M ^a   Drent, Piet J ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depletion; Foraging; Great tit; Search time

Indexed keywords

ENCOUNTER RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL FORAGING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 0442291846     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0110     Document Type: Article

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