Ecology of fear: Foraging games between predators and prey with pulsed resources
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1) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607, USA (e-mail: [email protected]) 2) Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, 84 990, Israel (e-mail: [email protected]) 3) Department of Live Sciences and Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84 105, Israel (e-mail: [email protected])
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