Foraging Theory
Advancement in Information Foraging Theory
... traditional theory of information retrieval will retrieve the results, which are divided into related and not related as per the recall and precision evaluation of user search [8], but the reality is: When the ...
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Exploring Prehistoric Salmon Subsistence in the Willamette Valley using Zooarchaeological Records and Optimal Foraging Theory
... Valley. Finally, targeted research questions can be generated when incongruities are found between expected subsistence practices and archaeological or ethnographic records for subsistence practices. Using the diet ...
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When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory
... Optimal foraging theory is an explicit account of some of the selection pressures that should have shaped mechanisms for making judgments under uncertainty in foraging ...this theory, animal ...
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An information foraging theory based user study of an adaptive user interaction framework for content-based image retrieval
... Information Foraging Theory, on a novel user inter- action framework - uInteract - for content-based image retrieval ...Information Foraging Theory is applied to the user study design and the ...
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Sensory Ecology of Foraging in Bumblebees
... study foraging decisions, and behavioral ecologists have made intriguing predictions on how pollinators should behave in complex situations where flowers of different species differ in detectability (Dukas and ...
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Risso's dolphins plan foraging dives
... Optimal foraging theory predicts that breath-hold divers would maximize the time spent foraging at depth and minimize the time spent in transit (Mori, ...chosen foraging layer and cease ...
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Risso's dolphins plan foraging dives
... Optimal foraging theory predicts that breath-hold divers would maximize the time spent foraging at depth and minimize the time spent in transit (Mori, ...chosen foraging layer and cease ...
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Foraging : an ecology model of consumer behaviour?
... and foraging theory, provides a framework for answering questions about strategic feeding and consumption behavior of animals (Stephens and Krebs 1986), including behaviors such as search, identification, ...
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Sex-specific foraging
... Classical foraging theory predicts that animals select their food rationally, ...‘optimal’ foraging decisions vary with ecological context, and their rationale underlies relation- ships between ...
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Foraging: an ecology model of consumer behaviour?
... and foraging theory, provides a framework for answering questions about strategic feeding and consumption behavior of animals (Stephens and Krebs 1986), including behaviors such as search, identification, ...
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A Foraging Mandala for Aquatic Microorganisms
... The foraging mandala The outcome of microbial foraging, in the water column as in other environments, hinges on the resource landscape: the quantity, composition, and spatiotemporal distribution of ...
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The foraging economics of honey bees in almonds
... the foraging of honey bees are costly to ...of foraging behavior developed below show and quantify the extent to which the diffusive nature of pollination makes it difficult for individual growers to learn ...
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Breeding limits foraging time : evidence of interrupted foraging response from body mass variation in a tropical environment
... In temperate environments mass gain in female birds during breeding is often attributed to egg formation and mass loss after incubation to flight adaptation or the effect of reproductive[r] ...
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A few long versus many short foraging trips: different foraging strategies of lesser kestrel sexes during breeding
... suboptimal foraging areas [70, 90, ...reduce foraging trip duration and consequently maximize prey delivering ...towards foraging areas farther away in order to reduce competition for food with ...
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Colony size and foraging range in seabirds
... Ref. 50. Nettleship, D.N. and Gaston, A.J. (1978) Patterns of pelagic distribution of seabirds in western Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait, Northwest Territories, in August and September 1976. Canadian Wildlife Service ...
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Levy foraging patterns of rural humans
... We conjecture that a potential parsimonious explanation for our findings is that the foragers are frequently making excursions from the trails and that these excursions take the form of random walks (coming back to the ...
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Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees
... the phototaxis of pollen and nectar foraging honey bees are related to their 929 . octopamine brain titers[r] ...
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Nocturnal Foraging by Chatham-Island Skuas
... were common. From dusk (at 2000h) until 2240h, the birds were together on the roost above the nest site, except for two short flights by the alpha male and 25 minutes foraging among petrel burrows along the forest ...
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Foraging behaviour of parasitoids in multi-herbivore communities
... the foraging process for the ...while foraging for its gregarious host Pieris brassicae throught indirect plant cues or direct host ...glomerata foraging behaviour than non- host species ...
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Collective foraging: Cleaning, energy harvesting and trophallaxis
... a foraging- collectively-for-dirt scenario, which is closely related to the foraging-collectively- for-food task, which is prominently exhibited by in all eusocial insect colonies: in our focal scenario, a ...
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