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Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection

  • Roger N. Hughes
Conference proceedings

Part of the NATO ASI Series book series (volume 20)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XII
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  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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
    4. Diet Selection by Generalist Herbivores: A Test of the Linear Programming Model
      N. Thompson Hobbs
      Pages 395-414
    5. A Reply To Hobbs
      Gary E. Belovsky
      Pages 415-422
    6. Applicability of Five Diet-Selection Models to Various Foraging Challenges Ruminants Encounter
      Fred D. Provenza, David F. Balph
      Pages 423-460

  7. Bulk Processors: Invertebrate Grazers

    1. The Characteristics of Algae in Relation to their Vulnerability to Grazing Snails
      Trevor A. Norton, Nicola L. Manley
      Pages 461-478
    2. Comparative Foraging Behavior of Tropical and Boreal Sea Urchins
      Robert L. Vadas
      Pages 479-514

  8. Bulk Processors: Deposit Feeders

    1. Effects of Food Value of Artificial and Natural Sediments on Functional Response and Net Rate of Energy Gain by a Deposit-Feeding Polychaete
      Gary L. Taghon, Ron R. Greene, David Bard
      Pages 515-529
    2. Supply-Side Optimization: Maximizing Absorptive Rates
      W. Brian Dade, Peter A. Jumars, Deborah L. Penry
      Pages 531-556
    3. Foraging Strategy of a Deposit Feeding Crab
      R. K. Zimmer-Faust
      Pages 557-568

  9. Bulk Processors: Filter Feeders

    1. Retention Efficiency, Perceptual Bias, and Active Choice as Mechanisms of Food Selection by Suspension-Feeding Zooplankton
      William R. DeMott
      Pages 569-594
    2. Concentration-Variable Interactions Between Calanoid Copepods and Particles of Different Food Quality: Observations and Hypotheses
      Henry A. Vanderploeg, Gustav-Adolf Paffenhöfer, James R. Liebig
      Pages 595-613
    3. Water Processing in Filter-Feeding Bivalves
      C. Barker Jørgensen
      Pages 615-636
    4. Behavioural Plasticity in the Suspension Feeding of Benthic Animals
      B. Okamura
      Pages 637-660

  10. Interactions Among Foragers: Social Co-Operation

    1. How Trail Laying and Trail Following Can Solve Foraging Problems for Ant Colonies
      S. Goss, R. Beckers, J. L. Deneubourg, S. Aron, J. M. Pasteels
      Pages 661-678

  11. Interactions Among Foragers: Competition

    1. Intraspecific Kleptoparasitism and Foraging Efficiency as Constraints on Food Selectin by Kelp Gulls Larus Dominicanus
      Philip A. R. Hockey, William K. Steele
      Pages 679-706
    2. Foraging in the Black-Headed Gull: Compensatory site selection by immatures
      L. R. Hesp
      Pages 707-720

  12. Interactions Between Foragers and Other Animals: Predation

    1. Information Overload and Food Selection
      Manfred Milinski
      Pages 721-737
    2. Diet Selection Under the Risk of Predation
      Jean-Guy J. Godin
      Pages 739-770
    3. Interacting Effects of Predator and Prey Behavior in Determining Diets
      Andrew Sih, Robert D. Moore
      Pages 771-796
    4. Hunting by the Hunted: Optimal Prey Selection by Foragers under Predation Hazard
      James F. Gilliam
      Pages 797-819

  13. Interactions Between Foragers and Other Animals: Fisheries Management

    1. On the Role of Ecological Experimentation in Resource Management: Managing Fisheries Through Mechanistic Understanding of Predator Feeding Behaviour
      Charles H. Peterson
      Pages 821-846
    2. The Role of the Optimal Diet Predator in Multispecies Fishery Assessment
      T. J. Pitcher, G. F. Turner
      Pages 847-862

  14. Round-Table Discussion (1)

    1. Can there be a general theory of diet selection?
      Roger N. Hughes
      Pages 863-864

  15. Round-Table Discussion (2)

    1. The role and importance of optimal foraging theory in ecology
      Roger N. Hughes
      Pages 865-866
  16. Back Matter
    Pages 867-887
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About these proceedings

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Behaviour Diet Selection Ecology Optimal Foraging Theory development

Editors and affiliations

  • Roger N. Hughes
    • 1
  1. 1.Unit of Functional and Evolutionary Biology School of Biological SciencesUniversity College of North WalesBangor, GwyneddUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75118-9
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-75120-2
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-75118-9
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