Predator foraging behavior and patterns of avian nest success: What can we learn from an agent-based model?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 272, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-149

  Ringelman, Kevin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Dispersion; Individual based; Predation; Spatially explicit; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; PREDATION; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; WATERFOWL;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ECOSYSTEMS;

MAMMALS;

AVIFAUNA; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NEST SITE; NESTING SUCCESS; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SITE SELECTION; TRADE-OFF; WATERFOWL;

EID: 84886789301     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.09.028     Document Type: Article

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