Which conditions promote negative density dependent selection on prey aggregations?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-30

  Tosh, Colin R ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Density dependent selection; Predator prey

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NATURAL SELECTION; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955562957     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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