No evidence for negative frequency-dependent feeding performance in relation to personality

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-57

  Kurvers, Ralf H J M ^a   Van Santen De Hoog, Simone I ^a   Van Wieren, Sipke E ^a   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a,b   Prins, Herbert H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

barnacle goose; boldness; foraging strategy; negative frequency dependent selection; personality; producer scrounger game

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER INTERACTION; WATERFOWL;

ANIMALIA; ANSER; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 84555170618     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr148     Document Type: Article

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