Foraging under conditions of short-term exploitative competition: The case of stock traders

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1755, 2013, Pages

  Saavedra, Serguei ^a   Malmgren, R Dean ^b   Switanek, Nicholas ^c,d   Uzzi, Brian ^c,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Datascope Analytics   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Human activity; Maladaptive behaviour; Short term competition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPLOITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEURISTICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84879043474     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2901     Document Type: Article

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