Impact of food predictability on social facilitation by foraging scavengers

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1131-1139

  Deygout, Chloé ^a,b   Gault, Agns ^c   Duriez, Olivier ^c   Sarrazin, Franois ^d   Bessa Gomes, Carmen ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c CP51   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

feeding stations; Gyps; individual based model; social information

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RAPTOR; SCAVENGER;

GYPS;

EID: 78649363342     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq120     Document Type: Article

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