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Marginal predation: do encounter or confusion effects explain the targeting of prey group edges?

Marginal predation, also known as the edge effect, occurs when aggregations of prey are preferentially targeted on their periphery by predators and has long been established in many taxa. Two main processes have been used to explain this phenomenon, the confusion effect and the encounter rate betwee...

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Autores principales: Duffield, Callum, Ioannou, Christos C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5873256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29622928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx090