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An animal can only survive in a given habitat if it has enough time to find, process and digest food whilst avoiding predation. The time it has for food acquisition is affected by the vegetation and competition with conspecifics, which depends on aggregation tendencies. We used the relationships between time allocations, on the one hand, and climatic variables (as a proxy for habitat quality) and group size, on the other, to develop a model that predicts maximum ecologically tolerable group s...
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- 10.1007/s00265-006-0212-2
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- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 60
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 683-694
- Publication date:
- 2006-09-05
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1432-0762
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0340-5443
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uuid:575e580e-adb2-4cbb-80e6-4e4ad1ae2fad
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- Copyright date:
- 2006
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