Flocking and Predator Avoidance: Models of Flocking and Observations on the Spatial Dispersion of Foraging Winter Shorebirds (Charadrii)
- 1 January 1980
- Vol. 34 (1) , 35-43
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3544547
Abstract
Avian foraging flocks may result from individuals balancing the benefits of foraging in flocks (i.e., decreased vulnerability to predation) with the costs of fo...This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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