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
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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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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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Optimal Foraging By Bacteriophages Through Host Avoidance [PDF]
American Naturalist, 2008 Optimal foraging theory explains diet restriction as an adaptation to best utilize an array of foods differing in quality, the poorest items not worth the lost opportunity of finding better ones.
Bull, James J. +2 more
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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
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A new application for the optimal foraging theory: the extraction of medicinal plants. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 The Optimal Foraging Theory was used to identify possible patterns in bark extraction and the selective cutting ofAnadenanthera colubrina(Angico), a medicinal plant. The hypotheses were built on two approaches: selection of collection place and bark exploitation occurrence in only one of these resource areas.
Soldati GT, de Albuquerque UP.
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