Role of social interactions in dynamic patterns of resource patches and forager aggregation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11228-11233

  Tania, Nessy ^a   Vanderlei, Ben ^b   Heath, Joel P ^c   Edelstein Keshet, Leah ^c  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Ecological patchiness; Foraging strategies; Pattern formation; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FORAGER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHEMOTAXIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863926980     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201739109     Document Type: Article

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