Effect of group size on feeding rate when patches are exhaustible

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-61

  Beauchamp, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CAPTIVE POPULATION; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; PASSERINE; PATCH DYNAMICS;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TAENOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 33846329805     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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