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
doaj +2 more sources
Neonicotinoids and Optimal Foraging Theory
Environmental Advances, 2022 Determination of how neonicotinoid ingestion affects the foraging behaviour of flower-visiting animals, and using Optimal Foraging Theory to assess the nature and extent of consequent changes to foraging efficiency, provide a novel approach for ...
Graham H. Pyke
doaj +2 more sources
Promoting Quantitative Skills in Introductory Classes Using Optimal Foraging Theory and a Model-Assisted Activity [PDF]
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2017 TMathematical models help students identify and understand underlying scientific patterns, while improving and reinforcing quantitative skills. However, they are often omitted from introductory undergraduate science classes.
Sara A. Lombardi
doaj +2 more sources
The application of foraging theory to the information searching behaviour of general practitioners [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2011 Background General Practitioners (GPs) employ strategies to identify and retrieve medical evidence for clinical decision making which take workload and time constraints into account.
Dowell Anthony C +2 more
doaj +3 more sources
Testing optimal foraging theory in a penguin-krill system. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2014 Food is heterogeneously distributed in nature, and understanding how animals search for and exploit food patches is a fundamental challenge in ecology. The classic marginal value theorem (MVT) formulates optimal patch residence time in response to patch quality.
Watanabe YY, Ito M, Takahashi A.
europepmc +4 more sources
Optimal foraging theory and niche-construction theory do not stand in opposition. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 In a recent paper, Zeder (1) outlines core archaeological questions in domestication research, highlighting the importance of defining the process, when it happened, and why it happened in various global contexts. Importantly, she emphasizes the utility of separating initial domestication from intensive agricultural practices, pointing out that often ...
Mohlenhoff KA, Coltrain JB, Codding BF.
europepmc +4 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
Mechanism of Dietary Variation of Grazing Yaks on Tibetan Plateau: The Role of Seasonal Heterogeneity of Resources [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDiet composition is a crucial yet understudied, dimension of animal ecology, with seasonal dietary shifts being a key factor in the population dynamics of large herbivores.
Yuning Ru +9 more
doaj +2 more sources
An Experimental Test of Central Place Foraging Theory in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCentral place foraging, whereby individuals are constrained in their foraging by their need to return to a central place, is common in nesting birds. A key prediction of the central place foraging theory models developed by Orians and Pearson is that as ...
Grace Blackburn +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Insights for caribou/reindeer management using optimal foraging theory
Rangifer, 1991 Optimal foraging theory is useful to wildlife managers, because it helps explain the nutritional value of different habitats for wildlife species. Based upon nutritional value, the use of different habitats can be predicted, including how factors such as
Gary E. Belovsky
doaj +3 more sources