The allometry of prey preferences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Kalinkat, Gregor ^a,b   Rall, Björn Christian ^b   Vucic Pestic, Olivera ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD WEB; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; SIMULATION; SPIDER; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

CARABIDAE; LYCOSIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY SIZE; FOOD PREFERENCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 80053611822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025937     Document Type: Article

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