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Coping Behavior as an Adaptation to Stress in Gulls

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In this chapter we employ logistic regression and Darwinian dynamics to explore how a behavior with a crucial physiological function might be co-opted to function as a coping behavior in response to stress generated by the presence of predators. This study was initially reported in the Journal of Biological Dynamics in 2012 by senior researchers Shandelle Henson, Lynelle Weldon, and James Hayward, and students Daniel Greene, Libby Megna, and Maureen Serem [23].

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Jim M. Cushing

  2. Department of Mathematics and Department of Biology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA

    Shandelle M. Henson

  3. Department of Biology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA

    James L. Hayward

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Cushing, J.M., Henson, S.M., Hayward, J.L. (2023). Coping Behavior as an Adaptation to Stress in Gulls. In: Modeling Behavior and Population Dynamics. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34283-7_6

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