Group foraging by a kleptoparasitic fish: A strong inference test of social foraging models

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3349-3359

  Hamilton, Ian M ^a,b   Dill, Lawrence M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggregation economy; Dispersion economy; Ideal free distribution; Information; Kleptoparasitism; Kyphosus cornelii; Producer scrounger model

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; KLEPTOPARASITISM; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; KYPHOSUS; KYPHOSUS CORNELII;

EID: 1342309539     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0227     Document Type: Article

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