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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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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
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Optimal foraging predicts the ecology but not the evolution of host specialization in bacteriophages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 We explore the ability of optimal foraging theory to explain the observation among marine bacteriophages that host range appears to be negatively correlated with host abundance in the local marine environment.
Sébastien Guyader, Christina L Burch
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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 ...
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Urban foraging : individual variation in inner-city graffiti writers' target preferences and specialization [PDF]
, 2020 Objectives: Drawing upon optimal foraging theory, we examine graffiti writers’ individual target preferences to establish the diversity in their target choices (henceforth called “target specialization”).
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Ethnobiology Letters, 2017 The use of optimal foraging theory in archaeology has been criticized for focusing heavily on “negative” human-environmental interactions, particularly anthropogenic resource depression, in which prey populations are reduced by foragers’ own foraging ...
Emily Lena Jones, David A. Hurley
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Optimal Forager Against Ideal Free Distributed Prey [PDF]
, 2015 The introduced dispersal-foraging game is a combination of prey habi2 tat selection among two patch types and optimal foraging approaches. Prey’s patch 3 preference and forager behavior determine the prey’s survival rate.
Cabello, Tomás +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Here, I describe foraging behavior of goldcrests, Regulus regulus, based on eight years of field observation in a coniferous forest dominated by Norway spruce Picea abies in southwestern Sweden.
Rolf Åke Norberg
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Feeding ecology of a highly aerial bird during its long breeding season
Avian Research, 2023 Pallid Swifts (Apus pallidus), as other swifts, are birds extremely adapted to an aerial lifestyle, showing unique adaptations that allow them to fly almost continuously.
Sandra Fernandes +2 more
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Teaching Genetic Linkage and Multiple Crossovers with Sets of Cards as Chromosomes
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.
Richard H. Heineman
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