An application of upscaled optimal foraging theory using hidden Markov modelling: year-round behavioural variation in a large arctic herbivore [PDF]
Movement Ecology, 2020 Background In highly seasonal environments, animals face critical decisions regarding time allocation, diet optimisation, and habitat use. In the Arctic, the short summers are crucial for replenishing body reserves, while low food availability and ...
Larissa T. Beumer +9 more
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Game-theoretic methods for functional response and optimal foraging behavior. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 We develop a decision tree based game-theoretical approach for constructing functional responses in multi-prey/multi-patch environments and for finding the corresponding optimal foraging strategies.
Ross Cressman +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.
A. King, H. Marshall
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Constrained optimal foraging by marine bacterioplankton on particulate organic matter. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Patch use theory predicts that organisms foraging in a heterogeneous resource landscape balance their residence time on a patch yielding diminishing returns with the sum of the metabolic, predation, and opportunity costs of foraging.
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Optimal foraging by a large ungulate in an extreme environment: Wild mountain reindeer select snow‐free feeding habitats in winter [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Optimal foraging models predict that individual animals will optimize net energy gain by intensifying forage activity and/or reducing forage energy cost. Then, the free distribution model predicts an animal's distribution in a patchy landscape will match
Lena Romtveit +7 more
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Optimal foraging and the information theory of gambling. [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2019 Part of the life cycle of an ant colony is simple: a colony collects resources; these resources are converted into more ants, and these ants in turn collect more resources.
Baddeley RJ, Franks NR, Hunt ER.
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Experience-based optimal foraging on planktonic prey in Baikal seals [PDF]
Movement EcologyBackground Understanding how predatory animals efficiently locate prey with limited knowledge of its location is challenging. Optimal foraging theory suggests that animals improve their food intake through experience-based adjustments of search patterns.
Yuuki Y. Watanabe +2 more
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Combining radio-telemetry and radar measurements to test optimal foraging in an aerial insectivore bird [PDF]
eLifeOptimal foraging theory posits that foragers adjust their movements based on prey abundance to optimize food intake. While extensively studied in terrestrial and marine environments, aerial foraging has remained relatively unexplored due to technological
Itai Bloch +4 more
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Optimal foraging in semantic memory. [PDF]
Psychological Review, 2012 Do humans search in memory using dynamic local-to-global search strategies similar to those that animals use to forage between patches in space? If so, do their dynamic memory search policies correspond to optimal foraging strategies seen for spatial foraging?
Thomas T. Hills +2 more
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Foraging as an evidence accumulation process.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2019 The patch-leaving problem is a canonical foraging task, in which a forager must decide to leave a current resource in search for another. Theoretical work has derived optimal strategies for when to leave a patch, and experiments have tested for ...
Jacob D Davidson, Ahmed El Hady
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