Testing a stochastic version of the Beddington-DeAngelis functional response in foraging shore crabs

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1027-1040

  Smallegange, Isabel M ^a,b   van der Meer, Jaap ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CRAB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDATOR; PREY LOCATION; STOCHASTICITY;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 77952423323     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1382-z     Document Type: Article

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