Spatial processes can determine the relationship between prey encounter rate and prey density

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-138

  Travis, J M J ^a   Palmer, S C F ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Foraging; Predation risk; Searching; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; AVIFAUNA; ENCOUNTER RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOTH; PREDATION RISK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA;

EID: 25444480556     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0293     Document Type: Article

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