Searching efficiency and the functional response of a pause-travel forager

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 784-792

  Poole, A E ^a,b   Stillman, R A ^c   Watson, H K ^a   Norris, K J ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Holling's disc equation; Pause travel foraging

Indexed keywords

FOOD LIMITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HANDLING TIME; PASSERINE; PREY CAPTURE;

ANIMALIA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 34447312165     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01288.x     Document Type: Article

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