Vigilance benefits and competition costs in groups: do individual redshanks gain an overall foraging benefit?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1869-1875

  Sansom, Alex ^a   Cresswell, Will ^a   Minderman, Jeroen ^b   Lind, Johan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

antipredation; group size effect; interference competition; predator detection; redshank; Tringa totanus

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; SIZE EFFECT; VIGILANCE; WADER;

ANIMALIA; TRINGA; TRINGA TOTANUS;

EID: 44349111172     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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