Gulls and plovers the ecology and behaviour of mixed species feeding groups
Gulls and Plovers tells a fascinating story of give and take ...At every turn, predictions derived from optimal foraging theory and detection theory are tested with quantitative data. This is one of a growing number of studies emerging from the presses after lengthy gestation. They will confound the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Croom Helm
1985
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in behavioural adaptation
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Gulls and Plovers tells a fascinating story of give and take ...At every turn, predictions derived from optimal foraging theory and detection theory are tested with quantitative data. This is one of a growing number of studies emerging from the presses after lengthy gestation. They will confound the critics who have so vociferously denounced the functional approach to behaviour for its lack of scientific method. New Scientist; ...there is much interesting new detail in the book and some new ways of looking at the inter-relationships of flocking and foraging strategies. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliography and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 302 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0709932308 0-7099-3230-8 |