Knowing your habitat: Linking patch-encounter rate and patch exploitation in parasitoids

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-425

  Thiel, Andra ^a   Hoffmeister, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asobara tabida; Behavioral plasticity; Habitat quality; Marginal value theorem; Optimal foraging; Patch time allocation; Travel time

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; PARASITOID; PATCH USE; PLASTICITY; TRAVEL TIME;

ANIMALIA; ASOBARA; ASOBARA TABIDA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; VESPIDAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 2942558682     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh030     Document Type: Article

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