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Effects of habitat composition and landscape structure on worker foraging distances of five bumble bee species [PDF]
Ecological Applications, 2016 Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators of both crops and wild flowers. Their contribution to this essential ecosystem service has been threatened over recent decades by changes in land use, which have led to declines in their populations.
John W Redhead +2 more
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The Advantage of Foraging Myopically [PDF]
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2018 We study the dynamics of a \emph{myopic} forager that randomly wanders on a lattice in which each site contains one unit of food. Upon encountering a food-containing site, the forager eats all the food at this site with probability ...
Bhat, U. +3 more
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Optimal L\'{e}vy-flight foraging in a finite landscape [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12, 20141158 (2015), 2014 We present a simple model to study L\'{e}vy-flight foraging in a finite landscape with countable targets. In our approach, foraging is a step-based exploratory random search process with a power-law step-size distribution $P(l) \propto l^{-\mu}$. We find
Jurdak, Raja +7 more
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A continuous model of ant foraging with pheromones and trail formation [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 We propose and numerically analyze a PDE model of ant foraging behavior. Ant foraging is a prime example of individuals following simple behavioral rules based on local information producing complex, organized and ``intelligent'' strategies at the ...
Amorim, Paulo
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EltonTraits 1.0: Species‐level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals
Ecology, 2014 Species are characterized by physiological, behavioral, and ecological attributes that are all subject to varying evolutionary and ecological constraints and jointly determine species' role and function in ecosystems.
Jonathan Belmaker +2 more
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Design Realities, 2018 This chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Food and Landscape (2018) addresses the place of one of the oldest human landscape practices – foraging – in a world where the business of nourishment and the lands that produce foodstuffs continue to be developed on relentlessly industrial lines. Arguing that foraging, agriculture and hunting are, in practice,
Stuart Walker
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Long‐term individual foraging site fidelity—why some gannets don't change their spots
Ecology, 2015 Many established models of animal foraging assume that individuals are ecologically equivalent. However, it is increasingly recognized that populations may comprise individuals who differ consistently in their diets and foraging behaviors.
Ewan D Wakefield +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2013 Throughout evolution the foraging and echolocation behaviors as well as the motor systems of bats have been adapted to the tasks they have to perform while searching and acquiring food.
A. Denzinger, H. Schnitzler
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Utilisation of intensive foraging zones by female Australian fur seals. [PDF]
, 2015 Within a heterogeneous environment, animals must efficiently locate and utilise foraging patches. One way animals can achieve this is by increasing residency times in areas where foraging success is highest (area-restricted search).
Arnould, John PY +3 more
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Current Biology, 2022 Before visiting your local supermarket, do you write your food shopping list in the order you expect to encounter the items as you walk around, aisle by aisle? This way, you minimise your travel distance, saving time and effort. Many other animals do the same.
Andrew J, King, Harry H, Marshall
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