Vigilance and Models of Behavior

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 506-510

  Lind, J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antipredator behavior; Fitness; Group size effect; Predation; Predation risk; Predator attack; Predator detection; Predator prey interaction; Scanning; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928396268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00295-3     Document Type: Chapter

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