Predator Ingestion Rate and its Bearing on Feeding Time and the Theory of Optimal Diets
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 47 (2), 529-547
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3799
Abstract
(1) Two insect predators, Adalia bipunctata (L.) and Notonecta glauca (L.) are shown to have ingestion rates which decline over the time whilst the animal is fe...This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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