Can adaptive evolution or behaviour lead to diversification of traits determining a trade-off between foraging gain and predation risk?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 653-670

  Abrams, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive foraging; Anti predator behaviour; Behavioural dynamics; Branching point; Diversification; Food chain; Predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542505876     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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