Trade-offs between time, predation risk and life history, and their implications for biogeography: A systems modelling approach with a primate case study

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 777-790

  Bettridge, Caroline ^a   Lehmann, J ^b   Dunbar, R I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baboons; Biogeography; Climate; Group size; Life history; Linear programming model; Time budgets

Indexed keywords

BEST STRATEGY; BODY MASS; GROUP SIZE; LIFE HISTORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR DENSITY; STUDY SITES; SYSTEMS MODELLING; TIME BUDGET; TRADE OFF;

BUDGET CONTROL; COMMERCE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECOLOGY; LINEARIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPENSATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; LIFE HISTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION RISK; PRIMATE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVORSHIP; TRADE-OFF; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA;

PAPIO; PRIMATES;

EID: 74549175946     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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