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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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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Eating smart: Free-ranging dogs follow an optimal foraging strategy while scavenging in groups
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Foraging and acquiring of food is a delicate balance between managing the costs (both energy and social) and individual preferences. Previous research on solitarily foraging free-ranging dogs showed that they prioritise the nutritionally highest valued ...
Rohan Sarkar +18 more
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Resource availability and anthropogenic disturbance alter how wolves move and feed: comparing two populations [PDF]
Movement EcologyAnimals behave ‘optimally’ when they minimize their costs while maximizing their energetic gain. Optimal foraging theory predicts that with decreasing resource abundance, animals will increase 1) niche breadth, 2) territory size and movement distance ...
Christina M. Prokopenko +8 more
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Water Level Regulation Regime Shifts Drive Divergent Foraging Habitat Use by Wintering Hooded Cranes (Grus monacha) in Shallow Gate‐controlled Lakes of the Yangtze Floodplain [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionHabitat use is fundamental for animal survival at key life history stages. Understanding how changes in foraging habitat conditions modulate habitat‐use patterns is critical in wildlife conservation.
Yong Fang +3 more
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Continuous foraging behavior shapes patch-leaving decisions in pigeons: a 3D tracking study [PDF]
Animal CognitionOptimal foraging behavior is a key component of successful adaptations to natural environments. Understanding how animals decide to stay near food or to leave it for another food patch gives us insights into the underlying cognitive mechanisms that ...
Guillermo Hidalgo-Gadea +3 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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