Social class influences degree of variance sensitivity in wild Siberian jays

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1067-1072

  Ratikainen, Irja I ^a   Wright, Jonathan ^a   Kazem, Anahita J N ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

food hoarding; food storing; optimal foraging; risk sensitivity; stochastic environment

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREEDING POPULATION; CACHING; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SONGBIRD; STARVATION; STOCHASTICITY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CORVIDAE; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS;

EID: 77955878792     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq106     Document Type: Article

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