Foraging Behavior

Foraging behavior has always been a central concern of ecology. Understanding what animals eat is clearly an essential component of under­ standing many ecological issues including energy flow, competition and adaptation. Theoretical and empirical developments in the late 1960's and 1970's...

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Other Authors: Kamil, A.C. (Editor), Krebs, J.R. (Editor), Pulliam, H.R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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