The Forager's Dilemma: Food Sharing and Food Defense as Risk-Sensitive Foraging Options

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 768-779

  Dubois, Frédérique ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; ESS model; Foraging groups; Prisoner's dilemma; Risk sensitive theory

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAME; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACCIPITRINAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0742270741     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379202     Document Type: Article

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