Information Acquisition, Information Processing, and Patch Time Allocation in Insect Parasitoids

Behavioral Ecology of Insect Parasitoids: From Theoretical Approaches to Field Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 172-192

  Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^a   Bernstein, Carlos ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Ideal free distribution; Information acquisition; Insect parasitoids; Marginal value theorem; Parasitoid female

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889333715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696200.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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