Optimal apostatic selection: how should predators adjust to variation in prey frequencies?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 239-245

  Merilaita, Sami ^a   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crypsis; diversity; frequency dependent selection; polymorphism; predation; search image; switching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CRYPSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 57449100425     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.032     Document Type: Article

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