Space, time, and group size: A model of constraints on primate social foraging

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 411-419

  Grove, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ateles; Ecological constraint; Fission fusion; Group size; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPLOITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE USE; TAXONOMY; THRESHOLD; TIMESCALE;

ANIMALIA; ATELES; ATELES SP.; PRIMATES;

EID: 84856106977     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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