The patch distributed producer-scrounger game

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-266

  Ohtsuka, Yasunori ^a   Toquenaga, Yukihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal aggregation; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Group foraging; Horn's model; Information parasitism

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GAME THEORY; MODEL; PARASITISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLONIAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAME; GROUP DYNAMICS; NESTING; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; EUPHAGUS CYANOCEPHALUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 68949194552     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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