An evolutionarily stable joining policy for group foragers

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 856-864

  Ruxton, Graeme D ^a   Fraser, Chris ^a   Broom, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food sharing; Foraging; Information sharing; Local enhancement; Producer scrounger

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PATCHINESS;

EID: 23944509302     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari063     Document Type: Article

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