Foraging : behavior and ecology / edited by David W. Stephens, Joel S. Brown, and Ronald C. Ydenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stephens, David W., 1955-

Brown, Joel S. (Joel Steven), 1959-

Ydenberg, Ronald C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Food.

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large-as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake's digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat

Contents:

Foraging : an overview / Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens

Models of information use / David W. Stephens

Neuroethology and foraging / David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell

Cognition for foraging / Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs

Food acquisition, processing, and digestions / Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt

Herbivory / Jonathan Newman

Energy storage and expenditure / Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark

Provisioning / Ronald C. Ydenberg

Foraging in the face of danger / Peter A. Bednekoff

Foraging with others : games social foragers play / Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field

Foraging and population dynamics / Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell

Community ecology / Burt P. Kotler and Joel S. Brown

Foraging and the ecology of fear / Joel S. Brown and Burt P. Kotler

On foraging theory, humans, and the conservation of diversity : a prospectus / Michael L. Rosenzweig

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-586) and index.

ISBN:

9786611966560

9780226772653

0226772659

9781281966568

1281966568

OCLC:

310969610