Optimal investment across different aspects of anti-predator defences

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 579-586

  Broom, Mark ^a   Higginson, Andrew D ^b   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs of defences; Investment in defences; Optimal strategy; Predation; Predator prey

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDATOR STRESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77649341323     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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