Searching for prey: the effects of group size and number

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1383-1388

  Ioannou, C C ^a   Krause, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Daphnia; detection; encounter rate; Gasterosteus aculeatus L.; group size; three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DETECTION METHOD; ENCOUNTER RATE; GROUP SIZE; SIZE EFFECT; TELEOST;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 40749107382     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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