The effect of exploration on the use of producer-scrounger tactics.

Individuals foraging in groups can use two different tactics for obtaining food resources. Individuals can either search for food sources themselves (producing) or they can join food discoveries of others (scrounging). In this study we use a genetic algorithm in a spatially explicit producer-scroung...

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Main Authors: Ralf H J M Kurvers, Steven Hamblin, Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23185327/pdf/?tool=EBI