Costs and benefits of within-group spatial position: A feeding competition model

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-27

  Hirsch, Ben T ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contest competition; Dominance; Feeding competition; Kleptoparasitism; Predation; Producer scrounger; Public knowledge; Scramble competition; Social foraging; Within group spatial position

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33847220727     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511657     Document Type: Review

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