Strategy, compromise, and cheating in predator-prey games

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1293-1304

  Wolf, Nicholas ^a,b   Mangel, Marc ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategies; Game theory; Killer whale; Krill; Steller sea lions; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; EUPHAUSIACEA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 38949160045     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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