Hazardous duty pay and the foraging cost of predation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 999-1014

  Brown, Joel S ^a   Kotler, Burt P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost of predation; Fear; Giving up densities; Habitat selection; Isodars; Optimal foraging; Predation; Predation risk; Risk titrations

Indexed keywords

COST; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PREDATION RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 5344279171     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00661.x     Document Type: Review

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