Incorporating neurological and behavioral mechanisms of sociality into predator-prey models
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 Consumer-resource population models drive progress in predicting and understanding predation. However, they are often built by averaging the foraging outcomes of individuals to estimate per capita functional responses (functions that describe predation ...
James L. L. Lichtenstein +2 more
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Proof of principle : the adaptive geometry of social foragers [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgments We thank Cape Nature for permission to undertake the study. We thank Dr Matt Grove and two anonymous referees for comments and suggestions that improved the manuscript substantially.
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Roosting and foraging social structure of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Social dynamics are an important but poorly understood aspect of bat ecology. Herein we use a combination of graph theoretic and spatial approaches to describe the roost and social network characteristics and foraging associations of an Indiana bat ...
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Insight into the kinematics of blue whale surface foraging through drone observations and prey data [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 To understand how predators optimize foraging strategies, extensive knowledge of predator behavior and prey distribution is needed. Blue whales employ an energetically demanding lunge feeding method that requires the whales to selectively feed where ...
Leigh G. Torres +3 more
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The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly [PDF]
, 2019 Movement ecology aims to provide common terminology and an integrative framework of movement research across all groups of organisms. Yet such work has focused on unitary organisms so far, and thus the important group of filamentous fungi has not been ...
Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A. +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, migrates from spawning grounds in the western Pacific Ocean to foraging grounds in the California Current System (CCS), where they are thought to specialize on high energy, surface schooling prey.
Elan J Portner +2 more
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Density-dependent, central-place foraging in a grazing herbivore: competition and tradeoffs in time allocation near water [PDF]
, 2015 Optimal foraging theory addresses one of the core challenges of ecology: predicting the distribution and abundance of species. Tests of hypotheses of optimal foraging, however, often focus on a single conceptual model rather than drawing upon the ...
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Avian ResearchUnderstanding the foraging behavior is essential for investigating seabird ecology and conservation, as well as monitoring the well-being of the marine environment.
Yachang Cheng +8 more
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Exploring the evolution of a trade-off between vigilance and foraging in group-living organisms
, 2014 Despite the fact that grouping behavior has been actively studied for over a century, the relative importance of the numerous proposed fitness benefits of grouping remain unclear.
Adami, Christoph +3 more
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Feeding and foraging ecology of Trindade petrels Pterodroma arminjoniana during the breeding period in the South Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
, 2017 Seabirds breeding in tropical environments experience high energetic demands, when foraging in an oligotrophic environment. The globally threatened Trindade petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana has its largest colony in Trindade Island (20°30′S–29°19′W) inside
Bugoni, Leandro +4 more
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