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Non-L\'evy mobility patterns of Mexican Me'Phaa peasants searching for fuelwood [PDF]

, 2012
We measured mobility patterns that describe walking trajectories of individual Me'Phaa peasants searching and collecting fuelwood in the forests of "La Monta\~na de Guerrero" in Mexico.
A Ghilardi, AM Edwards, AM Reynolds, AM Schreier, AV Chechkin, B Enquist, C Raleigh, C Sueur, CT Brown, CT Brown, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Boyer, D Brockmann, Diego Hernández, DW Sims, EL Charnov, Eliane Ceccon, F Matthäus, F Pineda-García, G Ramos-Fernández, G Ramos-Fernández, GF Lima, GM Viswanathan, HE Stanley, I Rhee, IEA, J Klafler, J Rzedowski, J Wakeley, JC Berrìo, JC Flores, L Mao, M Campiteli, M Hébert, M Jager de, M Slatkin, MA Lomholt, MB Burke, MC Gonzalez, MC Santos, MEJ Newman, MF Shlesinger, O Bénichou, O Miramontes, Octavio Miramontes, Og DeSouza, P Knoppien, PJ Brantingham, PJ Richerson, R Development Core Team, R Landa, RR Sokal, SG Nurzaman, SM Hsiang, TF Homer-Dixon, V Cervantes, V Cervantes   +60 more
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Pursuit

Evolutionary Psychology, 2015
This article describes a software tool called “Pursuit” that is intended to be used for both research and teaching on the topic of optimal foraging theory.
Brian M. Wood, James Holland Jones
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Testing the habituation assumption underlying models of parasitoid foraging behavior [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Background Habituation, a form of non-associative learning, has several well-defined characteristics that apply to a wide range of physiological and behavioral responses in many organisms.
Paul K. Abram, Antonino Cusumano, Katrina Abram, Stefano Colazza, Ezio Peri   +4 more
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Stochastic Optimal Foraging Theory

, 2013
30 páginas We present here the core elements of a stochastic optimal foraging theory (SOFT), essentially, a random search theory for ecologists. SOFT complements classic optimal foraging theory (OFT) in that it assumes fully uninformed searchers in an explicit space.
Bartumeus, Frederic, Raposo, E. P., Viswanathan, G. M., Luz, M. G. E. da   +3 more
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Predicting trophic relations in ecological networks: a test of the Allometric Diet Breadth Model [PDF]

, 2009
Few of food web theory hypotheses/predictions can be readily tested using empirical data. An exception is represented by simple probabilistic models for food web structure, for which the likelihood has been derived.
Allesina, Stefano
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Proof of principle : the adaptive geometry of social foragers [PDF]

, 2016
Acknowledgments We thank Cape Nature for permission to undertake the study. We thank Dr Matt Grove and two anonymous referees for comments and suggestions that improved the manuscript substantially.
Barrett, Louise, Bonnell, Tyler, Chaplin, George, Clarke, Parry M.R., Dostie, Marcus J., Henzi, S Peter, Kienzle, Stefan, Lusseau, David   +7 more
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The role of mathematical modelling in understanding prokaryotic predation

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
With increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance impacting both human and animal health, novel means of treating resistant infections are urgently needed.
J. Kimberley Summers, J. Kimberley Summers, Jan-Ulrich Kreft   +2 more
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Optimal search behavior and classic foraging theory

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2009
12 páginas, 1 figura. Random walk methods and diffusion theory pervaded ecological sciences as methods to analyze and describe animal movement. Consequently, statistical physics was mostly seen as a toolbox rather than as a conceptual framework that could contribute to theory on evolutionary biology and ecology.
Bartumeus, Frederic, Catalán, Jordi
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Optimal foraging theory and economics: a historical note [PDF]

, 2017
This study sheds a light on economic roots of optimal foraging/mating theory. Two examples show graphical optimisation models of behavioural ecology that are identical to much older ones of economics.
Dagg, Joachim
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An evolutionarily stable joining policy for group foragers [PDF]

, 2005
For foragers that exploit patchily distributed resources that are challenging to locate, detecting discoveries made by others with a view to joining them and sharing the patch may often be an attractive tactic, and such behavior has been observed across ...
Broom, M., Fraser, C., Ruxton, G. D.
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