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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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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?
HIlls, Thomas, Jones, Mike, Todd, Peter
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On Optimal Tempered Lévy Flight Foraging
Frontiers in Physics, 2018 Optimal random foraging strategy has gained increasing concentrations. It is shown that Lévy flight is more efficient compared with the Brownian motion when the targets are sparse.
Yuquan Chen +3 more
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Task partitioning in insect societies. I. Effect of colony size on queueing delay and colony ergonomic efficiency [PDF]
, 1999 The collection and handling of colony resources such as food, water, and nest construction material is often divided into subtasks in which the material is passed from one worker to another. This is known as task partitioning.
Anderson, C., Ratnieks, F.L.W.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) visit Disko Bay, West Greenland in winter and early spring to feed on Calanus spp., at a time of year when the copepods are still mostly in diapause and concentrated in near-bottom patches.
Neil S. Banas +5 more
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Footprints of information foragers: Behaviour semantics of visual exploration [PDF]
, 2002 Social navigation exploits the knowledge and experience of peer users of information resources. A wide variety of visual–spatial approaches become increasingly popular as a means to optimize information access as well as to foster and sustain a virtual ...
Chen, C +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2008 In a laboratory experiment, we investigated the preference of larvae and adults of Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) for three aphid species: two essential prey, Acyrthosiphon pisum and Aphis philadelphi, and a toxic prey Aphis ...
Oldřich NEDVĚD, Sara SALVUCCI
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Optimal-foraging predator favors commensalistic Batesian mimicry. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND:Mimicry, in which one prey species (the Mimic) imitates the aposematic signals of another prey (the Model) to deceive their predators, has attracted the general interest of evolutionary biologists.
Atsushi Honma +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2021 Dinoponera lucida is a poneromorph ant endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. The species is classified as endangered in Brazil’s Red List due to its peculiar reproductive biology and high habitat fragmentation. Herein, we characterize D.
Flávio Curbani +5 more
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Fine-scale foraging ecology of leatherback turtles
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Remote tracking of migratory species and statistical modeling of behaviors have enabled identification of areas that are of high ecological value to these widely distributed taxa.
Bryan P Wallace +3 more
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