The behaviour and diet breadth of central-place foragers: An application to human hunters and Neotropical game management

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-185

  Levi, Taal ^a,d   Lu, Flora ^a   Yu, Douglas W ^b,c   Mangel, Marc ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavioural ecology; Central place forager; Diet breadth; Marginal value theorem; Optimal foraging theory; State variable models; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960481940     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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