Foraging Behavior

1. Front Matter

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2. Optimal Foraging Theory

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Brief History of Optimal Foraging Ecology

      • Thomas W. Schoener

      Pages 5-67

   3. Faith and Foraging: A Critique of the “Paradigm Argument from Design”

      • Russell D. Gray

      Pages 69-140

3. The Problem of Selectivity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Test of the Energy Maximization Premise of Optimal Foraging Theory

      • David B. Campbell

      Pages 143-171

   3. Delivering Food to a Central Place: Three Studies of Bee-Eaters (Merops Apiaster)

      • John R. Krebs, Mark I. Avery, Alasdair I. Houston

      Pages 173-191

   4. Operant Conditioning Simulations of Foraging and the Delay-Reduction Hypothesis

      • Edmund Fantino

      Pages 193-214

   5. Foraging Behavior of Some Wintering Waders: Prey-Selection and Habitat Distribution

      • P. M. Meire

      Pages 215-237

   6. Foraging Time Constraints and Diet Choice

      • Jeffrey R. Lucas

      Pages 239-269

4. Patch Utilization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-272

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   2. Stochastic Models of Optimal Foraging

      • Richard F. Green

      Pages 273-302

   3. Starlings and Optimal Foraging Theory: Modelling in a Fractal World

      • A. Kacelink, I. C. Cuthill

      Pages 303-333

   4. Tests of Optimal Foraging Using an Operant Analogue

      • John Hanson

      Pages 335-362

   5. Competition for Non-Depleting Resources: The Ideal Free Distribution in Sticklebacks

      • Manfred Milinski

      Pages 363-388

   6. Foraging Games in a Random Environment

      • Thomas Caraco

      Pages 389-414

5. The Reproductive Consequences of Foraging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 415-415

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   2. Reproductive Consequences of Dietary Specialization and Switching in an Ecological Generalist

      • Raymond Pierotti, Cynthia Annett

      Pages 417-442

   3. The Consequences of Foraging for Reproductive Success

      • Douglass H. Morse, Robert S. Fritz

      Pages 443-455

   4. Parents, Nestlings and Feeding Frequency: A Model of Optimal Parental Investment and Implications for Avian Reproductive Strategies

      • Nadav Nur

      Pages 457-475

Foraging behavior has always been a central concern of ecology. Understanding what animals eat is clearly an essential component of under­ standing many ecological issues including energy flow, competition and adaptation. Theoretical and empirical developments in the late 1960's and 1970's led to a new emphasis in the study of foraging behavior, the study of individual animals in both field and laboratory. This development, in turn, led to an explosion of interest in foraging. Part of the reason for this explosion is that when foraging is studied at the individual level, it is relevant to many disciplines. Behaviorists, including ethologists and psychologists, are interested in any attempt to understand behavior. Ecologists know that a better understanding of foraging will contribute to resolving a number of important ecological issues. Anthropologists and others are applying the ideas coming out of the study of foraging behavior to problems within their disciplines. These developments led to a multidisciplinary symposium on foraging behavior, held as part of the 1978 Animal Behavior Society meetings in Seattle, Washington. Many ecologists, ethologists and psychologists participated or attended. The symposium was very successful. generating a high level of excitement. As a result, the participants decided to publish the proceedings of the symposium (Kami1 & Sargent 1981).

• adaptation
• animals
• development
• ecology
• energy

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Alan C. Kamil

• Oxford University, Oxford, England

  John R. Krebs

• University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  H. Ronald Pulliam

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