Food Specialization

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 1636-1642

  Svanback R ^a   Bolnick, D I ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Behavior; Competition; Diet specialization; Ecology; Evolution; Individual specialization; Morphology; Niche; Ontogeny; Optimal foraging; Search image; Sexual dimorphism; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008410816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00012-4     Document Type: Chapter

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