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Roger N. Hughes⁰

Roger N. Hughes
1. Unit of Functional and Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries G: (ASIG, volume 20)

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Table of contents (42 papers)

Front Matter

Pages I-XII

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Theory
1. Predator Switching and the Interpretation of Animal Choice Behavior: The Case for Constrained Optimization
  
  Leslie A. Real
  
  Pages 1-21
2. Foraging in the Context of Life-History : General Principles and Specific Models
  
  Alasdair I. Houston
  
  Pages 23-38
3. The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off And Some Behavioural and Ecological Consequences
  
  John M. McNamara
  
  Pages 39-59
4. Timing Mechanisms in Optimal Foraging: Some Applications of Scalar Expectancy Theory
  
  Alejandro Kacelnik, Dani Brunner, John Gibbon
  
  Pages 61-82
5. On Evaluation of Foraging Strategies Through Estimates of Reproductive Success
  
  Robert G. Jaeger, Jeffrey Lucas
  
  Pages 83-94
Evaluation and Selection of Food Items
1. Active Diet Selection or Passive Reflection of Changing Food Availability: The Underwater Foraging Behaviour of Canvasback Ducks
  
  John P. Ball
  
  Pages 95-109
2. Territorial Salamanders Evaluate Size and Chitinous Content of Arthropod Prey
  
  Robert G. Jaeger
  
  Pages 111-126
3. Are Rules of Thumb Sufficient for the Starling’s Choice of Food According to Gain in Energy?
  
  Werner Schuler
  
  Pages 127-142
4. Prey Selection and Processing in a Stomatopod Crustacean
  
  Roy L. Caldwell, Michael J. Childress
  
  Pages 143-164
Constraints and Physiological State
1. Time Scale and Diet Choice Decisions
  
  Jeffrey R. Lucas
  
  Pages 165-185
2. Food Requirement and Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Shortfall Minimizers
  
  C. J. Barnard
  
  Pages 187-213
3. The Combined Effects of Learning and Hunger in the Feeding Behaviour of the Fifteen-Spined Stickleback (Spinachia Spinachia L.)
  
  Marion I. Croy, Roger N. Hughes
  
  Pages 215-234
4. The Role of Behaviour and Morphology in the Selection of Prey by Pike
  
  Paul J. B. Hart, Stellan F. Hamrin
  
  Pages 235-254
5. How Important are Nutrient Constraints in Optimal Foraging Models or are Spatial/Temporal Factors More Important?
  
  Gary E. Belovsky
  
  Pages 255-280
Ontogenetic Changes in Food Selection
1. Ecological and Morphological Aspects of Changes in Food Uptake Through the Ontogeny of Haplochromis Piceatus
  
  Frietson Galis
  
  Pages 281-302
2. Predicting Ontogenetic Niche Shifts in the Field: What can be Gained by Foraging Theory?
  
  Lennart Persson
  
  Pages 303-321
Bulk Processors: Mammalian Grazers
1. The Impact of Different Growth Pattern on the Utilization of Tree Species by a Generalist Herbivore, the Moose Alces Alces: Implications of Optimal Foraging Theory
  
  Bernt-Erik Saether
  
  Pages 323-341
2. Rules and Cues Used by Sheep Foraging in Monocultures
  
  D. R. Bazely
  
  Pages 343-367
3. Constraints on Diet Selection and Foraging Behaviour in Mammalian Herbivores
  
  A. W. Illius, I. J. Gordon
  
  Pages 369-393

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Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection examines animals belonging to diverse trophic groups, from carnivores, herbivores, micro-algal grazers, to filter-feeders and detritus-feeders. In the past Optimal Foraging Theory has been applied to all these groups, but in different ways and in disci plines that rarely overlap. Here concepts and developments hitherto scattered in the literature are drawn together. This uniquely broad synthesis captures the state of the art in the study of diet selection and prescribes new objectives in theoretical development and research.

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Unit of Functional and Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK

Roger N. Hughes

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Book Title: Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection
Editors: Roger N. Hughes
Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries G:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75118-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-75120-2Published: 21 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-75118-9Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0258-1256
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 886
Topics: Zoology, Ecology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Agriculture, Forestry

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Table of contents (42 papers)

Front Matter

Theory

Predator Switching and the Interpretation of Animal Choice Behavior: The Case for Constrained Optimization

Foraging in the Context of Life-History : General Principles and Specific Models

The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off And Some Behavioural and Ecological Consequences

Timing Mechanisms in Optimal Foraging: Some Applications of Scalar Expectancy Theory

On Evaluation of Foraging Strategies Through Estimates of Reproductive Success

Evaluation and Selection of Food Items

Active Diet Selection or Passive Reflection of Changing Food Availability: The Underwater Foraging Behaviour of Canvasback Ducks

Territorial Salamanders Evaluate Size and Chitinous Content of Arthropod Prey

Are Rules of Thumb Sufficient for the Starling’s Choice of Food According to Gain in Energy?

Prey Selection and Processing in a Stomatopod Crustacean

Constraints and Physiological State

Time Scale and Diet Choice Decisions

Food Requirement and Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Shortfall Minimizers

The Combined Effects of Learning and Hunger in the Feeding Behaviour of the Fifteen-Spined Stickleback (Spinachia Spinachia L.)

The Role of Behaviour and Morphology in the Selection of Prey by Pike

How Important are Nutrient Constraints in Optimal Foraging Models or are Spatial/Temporal Factors More Important?

Ontogenetic Changes in Food Selection

Ecological and Morphological Aspects of Changes in Food Uptake Through the Ontogeny of Haplochromis Piceatus

Predicting Ontogenetic Niche Shifts in the Field: What can be Gained by Foraging Theory?

Bulk Processors: Mammalian Grazers

The Impact of Different Growth Pattern on the Utilization of Tree Species by a Generalist Herbivore, the Moose Alces Alces: Implications of Optimal Foraging Theory

Rules and Cues Used by Sheep Foraging in Monocultures

Constraints on Diet Selection and Foraging Behaviour in Mammalian Herbivores

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Unit of Functional and Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK

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Evaluation and Selection of Food Items

Constraints and Physiological State

Ontogenetic Changes in Food Selection

Bulk Processors: Mammalian Grazers

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Unit of Functional and Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK

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