The stochastic modelling of social and territorial behaviour

This thesis considers mathematical models of the interaction between social and territorial behaviour in animals, mainly by probabilistic methods. Chapter 1 introduces the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis, which suggests that territorial behaviour plus dispersed food resources can explain the existenc...

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Main Author: Blackwell, Paul Gavin
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 1990
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13594/