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Urban Foraging: A Ubiquitous Human Practice Overlooked by Urban Planners, Policy, and Research

, 2017
Although hardly noticed or formally recognised, urban foraging by humans probably occurs in all urban settings around the world. We draw from research in India, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States to demonstrate the ubiquity and varied nature of ...
C. Shackleton, P. Hurley, A. Dahlberg, M. Emery, H. Nagendra   +4 more
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Intragroup competition predicts individual foraging specialisation in a group‐living mammal

Ecology Letters, 2018
Individual foraging specialisation has important ecological implications, but its causes in group‐living species are unclear. One of the major consequences of group living is increased intragroup competition for resources.
Catherine E. Sheppard, Richard Inger, R. Mcdonald, Sam Barker, A. Jackson, F. J. Thompson, E. Vitikainen, M. Cant, H. Marshall   +8 more
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The Role of Experience in the Visual and Non-Visual Prey Recognition of Fire Salamander Populations from Caves and Streams

Diversity
The study of foraging behaviour is crucial for understanding several ecological and adaptive processes, as well as for developing conservation measures. While extensive research has been completed on birds and mammals, few studies have been conducted on ...
Hayes Hoover, Raoul Manenti, Andrea Melotto   +2 more
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Effects of flow speed and prey density on the rate and efficiency of prey capture in zooplanktivorous coral-reef fishes

Frontiers in Marine Science
Holling’s classical functional response model describes the mechanistic foundations of the relationships between predation rate and prey density. As such, the model is pertinent to predators that actively search for prey, but not to stationary predators ...
Amatzia Genin, Amatzia Genin, Svetlana Rickel, Svetlana Rickel, Margarita Zarubin, Margarita Zarubin, Moshe Kiflawi, Moshe Kiflawi   +7 more
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A difference between sexes: temporal variation in the diet of Carollia perspicillata (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) at the Macaregua cave, Santander (Colombia)

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020
Organisms adjust their foraging strategies to optimize the energetic costs during foraging with respect to benefits gained. These strategies are usually different in males and females due to their specific requirements during reproduction.
A. Alviz, J. Pérez-Torres
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Blue and fin whale residence time and occupancy in Navy training and testing areas off the U.S. West Coast

Frontiers in Marine Science
Blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales are prominent species in the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) using the area for migration and foraging.
Barbara A. Lagerquist, Barbara A. Lagerquist, Ladd M. Irvine, Ladd M. Irvine, Thomas M. Follett, Thomas M. Follett, Kristen Ampela, Erin A. Falcone, Gregory S. Schorr, Bruce R. Mate, Bruce R. Mate, Daniel M. Palacios, Daniel M. Palacios   +12 more
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Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) latrine use in relation to food abundance: evidence of the scarce factor paradox

Ecosphere, 2015
Many carnivores use latrines, and investigations of latrine use have typically been concerned with territorial defense, often at the expense of fully evaluating other, not mutually exclusive, functions.
Youbing Zhou, Wenwen Chen, Christina D. Buesching, Chris Newman, Yayoi Kaneko, Mingxi Xiang, Caiai Nie, David W. Macdonald, Zongqiang Xie   +8 more
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Investigating the impacts of field‐realistic exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide on bumblebee foraging, homing ability and colony growth

Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016
Summary The ability to forage and return home is essential to the success of bees as both foragers and pollinators. Pesticide exposure may cause behavioural changes that interfere with these processes, with consequences for colony persistence and ...
D. Stanley, A. Russell, S. Morrison, Catherine Rogers, N. E. Raine   +4 more
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Regulation of Ant Foraging: A Review of the Role of Information Use and Personality

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Animals live in heterogeneous environments where food resources are transient and have to be exploited rapidly. Ants show a wide range of foraging strategies and this activity is tightly regulated irrespective of the mode of recruitment used.
Swetashree Kolay, Raphaël Boulay, Patrizia d’Ettorre, Patrizia d’Ettorre   +3 more
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Urban gardens promote bee foraging over natural habitats and plantations

Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Increasing human land use for agriculture and housing leads to the loss of natural habitat and to widespread declines in wild bees. Bee foraging dynamics and fitness depend on the availability of resources in the surrounding landscape, but how precisely ...
Benjamin F Kaluza, H. Wallace, T. Heard, A. Klein, S. Leonhardt   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source