Co-existence of learners and stayers maintains the advantage of social foraging

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1311-1324

  Eliassen, Sigrunn ^a   Jørgensen, Christian ^a   Giske, Jarl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Frequency dependence; Group formation; Group size; Individual based model; Learning; Optimal foraging theory; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845275600     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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