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Hazardous duty pay and the foraging cost of predation

  1. Joel S. Brown1,*,
  2. Burt P. Kotler2

Article first published online: 15 SEP 2004

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00661.x

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Ecology Letters

Ecology Letters

Volume 7, Issue 10, pages 999–1014, October 2004

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Brown, J. S. and Kotler, B. P. (2004), Hazardous duty pay and the foraging cost of predation. Ecology Letters, 7: 999–1014. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00661.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

  2. 2

    Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute, Ben-Gurion University, Sede Boker, Israel

*E-mail: squirrel@uic.edu

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  1. Issue published online: 15 SEP 2004
  2. Article first published online: 15 SEP 2004
  3. Editor, Carlos Bernstein Manuscript received 20 July 2004 First decision made 29 July 2004 Second decision made 31 July 2004 Manuscript accepted 1 August 2004

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