Optimal foraging on perilous prey: Risk of bill damage reduces optimal prey size in oystercatchers

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 297-302

  Rutten, Anne L ^a,b   Oosterbeek, Kees ^a,b   Ens, Bruno J ^b   Verhulst, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Prey choice; Prey profitability; Prey size selection; Risky prey

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PREY SELECTION; PREY SIZE; WADER;

AVES; BIVALVIA; HAEMATOPODIDAE;

EID: 32144436865     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj029     Document Type: Article

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