Food quality affects search strategy in the acellular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1160-1167

  Latty, Tanya ^a   Beekman, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amoeboid; Area restricted search; Exploitation; Exploration; Foraging; Myxomycophyta

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXPLOITATION; EXPLORATION; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MICROORGANISM; PATCHINESS;

PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 70450255186     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp111     Document Type: Article

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