The spatial distribution of flocking foragers: Disentangling the effects of food availability, interference and conspecific attraction by means of spatial autoregressive modeling

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 551-561

  Folmer, Eelke O ^a,b   Olff, Han ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCH USE; PREDATOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84858339491     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19739.x     Document Type: Article

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