Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7025, 2005, Pages 519-522

  Catania, Kenneth C ^a   Remple, Fiona E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEED CONTROL;

FORAGING THEORY; PREDATORS; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

DIET; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATOR; PREY SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; DIET; FORAGING; INSECTIVORE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; TOUCH; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DENTITION; DIET; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATES; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLES; NOSE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REACTION TIME; SHREWS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 13444257712     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03250     Document Type: Article

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