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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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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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Sensitivity to Sunk Costs Depends on Attention to the Delay
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In the WebSurf task, humans forage for videos paying costs in terms of wait times on a time-limited task. A variant of the task in which demands during the wait time were manipulated revealed the role of attention in susceptibility to sunk costs ...
Rebecca Kazinka +2 more
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Stabilizing effects of group formation by Serengeti herbivores on predator-prey dynamics
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Predator-prey theory often assumes that potential prey individuals are solitary and evenly distributed in space. This assumption is violated in social, mobile prey, such as many ungulates.
John M. Fryxell +5 more
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Automatically tracking feeding behavior in populations of foraging C. elegans
eLife, 2022 Caenorhabditis elegans feeds on bacteria and other small microorganisms which it ingests using its pharynx, a neuromuscular pump. Currently, measuring feeding behavior requires tracking a single animal, indirectly estimating food intake from population ...
Elsa Bonnard +4 more
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Floor Substrate Preferences of Chickens: A Meta-Analysis
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 Environmental enrichment promotes sensory and motor stimulation for species-typical behaviors, which in turn enhance animal well-being. For farmed Galliformes, housing systems often limit enrichment to bedding and litter, that simultaneously act as ...
Valerie Monckton +2 more
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Arctic Science, 2020 Foraging by hyperabundant Arctic-nesting geese has significant impacts on vegetation of Arctic and subarctic coastal lowlands, but long-term data sets documenting these changes are rare. We undertook intensive surveys of plant communities at East Bay and
Kenneth F. Abraham +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Sensitivity of marine ecosystems to human disturbance leads to an increasing need to devise effective conservation initiatives. One key conservation leverage tool is the establishment of marine protected areas, which can be derived by inspecting where ...
Jennifer Morinay +9 more
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Sociobiology, 2016 Two substrates, sand and vermiculite, were tested in rearing laboratory experiments with Reticulitermes grassei at different culture periods (2, 4 and 6 weeks).
Patricia Gallardo +2 more
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Effects of agricultural practices on foraging habitats of a seabird species in the Baltic Sea
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Omnivorous and opportunistic species may be good indicators of food availability. Gulls often use human‐impacted landscapes and may respond to changes by altering their feeding ecology.
Stefan Garthe +3 more
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