Foraging decisions in risk-uniform landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Eccard, Jana Anja ^a,b   Liesenjohann, Thilo ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; SAFETY; VOLE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RISK;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK;

EID: 55349088260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003438     Document Type: Article

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