'Take-away' foraging spatially uncouples predator and prey-attack distributions

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 769-776

  Smallegange, Isabel M ^a,d   van der Meer, Jaap ^a,b   Sabelis, Maurice W ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Interference competition; Population stability; Predator prey dynamics; Travelling costs

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CRAB; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; PATCHINESS; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MYTILUS EDULIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; BRACHYURA; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; BRACHYURA; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957653553     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01700.x     Document Type: Article

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