Optimal foraging and gut constraints: Reconciling two schools of thought

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 481-496

  Whelan, Christopher J ^a   Brown, Joel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCOUNTER RATE; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HANDLING TIME;

EID: 24744432291     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13387.x     Document Type: Article

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