Reversed optimality and predictive ecology: Burrowing depth forecasts population change in a bivalve

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-8

  Van Gils, Jan A ^a   Kraan, Casper ^a   Dekinga, Anne ^a   Koolhaas, Anita ^a   Drent, Jan ^a   De Goeij, Petra ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti predation; Behavioural indicators; Optimal foraging theory; Population growth rate

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIVALVE; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIVALVE; BURROWING SPECIES; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORECASTING; GROWTH RATE; MACOMA BALTHICA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MACOMA BALTHICA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIVALVIA; FORECASTING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 63249107136     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0452     Document Type: Article

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