Vigilance in a selfish herd

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-451

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

antipredator defence; collective detection; ESS; evolutionarily stable strategies; game theory; group vigilance; modelling vigilance; nearest neighbour distance; pass along effect

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VIGILANCE;

EID: 33847685996     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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