Locating food in a spatially heterogeneous environment: Implications for fitness of the macrodecomposer Armadillidium vulgare (Isopoda: Oniscidea)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 545-551

  Tuck, Joanne M ^a   Hassall, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Growth; Learning; Orientation behaviour; Resource patchiness; Terrestrial isopods

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; LEARNING; PATCHINESS; SURVIVORSHIP;

ARMADILLIDIUM VULGARE; ISOPODA; ONISCIDEA;

EID: 26944502323     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0959-x     Document Type: Article

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