Modelling the many-wrongs principle: The navigational advantages of aggregation in nomadic foragers

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 302-310

  Hancock, Penelope A ^a   Milner Gulland, E J ^a   Keeling, Matthew J ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bearded pig; Conspecific attraction; Density dependence; Foraging; Genetic algorithm

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORAGE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWINE;

SUS BARBATUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33646526708     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.09.019     Document Type: Article

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