Foraging Behavior

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvA.C. Kamil,J.R. Krebs,H.R. Pulliam,A. C. Kamil,J. R. Krebs,J.R. Drebs,H. R. Pulliam

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Foraging behavior has always been a central concern of ecology. These developments led to a multidisciplinary symposium on foraging behavior, held as part of the 1978 Animal Behavior Society meetings in Seattle, Washington.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-11-01
Mått178 x 254 x 37 mm
Vikt1 272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor676
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781461290278

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Optimal Foraging Theory.- A Brief History of Optimal Foraging Ecology.- Faith and Foraging: A Critique of the “Paradigm Argument from Design”.- The Problem of Selectivity.- A Test of the Energy Maximization Premise of Optimal Foraging Theory.- Delivering Food to a Central Place: Three Studies of Bee-Eaters MeropsApiaster.- Operant Conditioning Simulations of Foraging and the Delay-Reduction Hypothesis.- Foraging Behavior of Some Wintering Waders: Prey-Selection and Habitat Distribution.- Foraging Time Constraints and Diet Choice.- Patch Utilization.- Stochastic Models of Optimal Foraging.- Starlings and Optimal Foraging Theory: Modelling in a Fractal World.- Tests of Optimal Foraging Using an Operant Analogue.- Competition for Non-Depleting Resources: The Ideal Free Distribution in Sticklebacks.- Foraging Games in a Random Environment.- The Reproductive Consequences of Foraging.- Reproductive Consequences of Dietary Specialization and Switching in an Ecological Generalist.- The Consequences of Foraging for Reproductive Success.- Parents, Nestlings and Feedings Frequency: A Model of Optimal Parental Investment and Implications for Avian Reproductive Strategies.- Learning and Foraging.- The Role of Learning in Honey Bee Foraging.- Adaption to Reward.- Signal Detection Theory and Foraging for Cryptic or Mimetic Prey.- Foraging Theory and Design.- Should Foragers Remember Where They’ve Been? Explorations of a Simulation Model Based on the Behavior and Energetics of Territorial Hummingbirds.- Randon and Systematic Foraging, Experimental Studies of Depletion and Schedules of Reinforcement.- Caching Behavior.- Cache-Protecting Behavior of Food-Hoarding Animals.- Cache Site Memory in Birds.

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