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Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Predator Switching and the Interpretation of Animal Choice Behavior: The Case for Constrained Optimization
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    Chapter 2 Foraging in the Context of Life-History : General Principles and Specific Models
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    Chapter 3 The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off And Some Behavioural and Ecological Consequences
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    Chapter 4 Timing Mechanisms in Optimal Foraging: Some Applications of Scalar Expectancy Theory
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    Chapter 5 On Evaluation of Foraging Strategies Through Estimates of Reproductive Success
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    Chapter 6 Active Diet Selection or Passive Reflection of Changing Food Availability: The Underwater Foraging Behaviour of Canvasback Ducks
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    Chapter 7 Territorial Salamanders Evaluate Size and Chitinous Content of Arthropod Prey
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    Chapter 8 Are Rules of Thumb Sufficient for the Starling’s Choice of Food According to Gain in Energy?
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    Chapter 9 Prey Selection and Processing in a Stomatopod Crustacean
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    Chapter 10 Time Scale and Diet Choice Decisions
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    Chapter 11 Food Requirement and Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Shortfall Minimizers
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    Chapter 12 The Combined Effects of Learning and Hunger in the Feeding Behaviour of the Fifteen-Spined Stickleback (Spinachia Spinachia L.)
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    Chapter 13 The Role of Behaviour and Morphology in the Selection of Prey by Pike
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    Chapter 14 How Important are Nutrient Constraints in Optimal Foraging Models or are Spatial/Temporal Factors More Important?
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    Chapter 15 Ecological and Morphological Aspects of Changes in Food Uptake Through the Ontogeny of Haplochromis Piceatus
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    Chapter 16 Predicting Ontogenetic Niche Shifts in the Field: What can be Gained by Foraging Theory?
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    Chapter 17 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
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    Chapter 18 Rules and Cues Used by Sheep Foraging in Monocultures
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    Chapter 19 Constraints on Diet Selection and Foraging Behaviour in Mammalian Herbivores
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    Chapter 20 Diet Selection by Generalist Herbivores: A Test of the Linear Programming Model
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    Chapter 21 A Reply To Hobbs
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    Chapter 22 Applicability of Five Diet-Selection Models to Various Foraging Challenges Ruminants Encounter
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    Chapter 23 The Characteristics of Algae in Relation to their Vulnerability to Grazing Snails
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    Chapter 24 Comparative Foraging Behavior of Tropical and Boreal Sea Urchins
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    Chapter 25 Effects of Food Value of Artificial and Natural Sediments on Functional Response and Net Rate of Energy Gain by a Deposit-Feeding Polychaete
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    Chapter 26 Supply-Side Optimization: Maximizing Absorptive Rates
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    Chapter 27 Foraging Strategy of a Deposit Feeding Crab
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    Chapter 28 Retention Efficiency, Perceptual Bias, and Active Choice as Mechanisms of Food Selection by Suspension-Feeding Zooplankton
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    Chapter 29 Concentration-Variable Interactions Between Calanoid Copepods and Particles of Different Food Quality: Observations and Hypotheses
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    Chapter 30 Water Processing in Filter-Feeding Bivalves
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    Chapter 31 Behavioural Plasticity in the Suspension Feeding of Benthic Animals
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    Chapter 32 How Trail Laying and Trail Following Can Solve Foraging Problems for Ant Colonies
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    Chapter 33 Intraspecific Kleptoparasitism and Foraging Efficiency as Constraints on Food Selectin by Kelp Gulls Larus Dominicanus
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    Chapter 34 Foraging in the Black-Headed Gull: Compensatory site selection by immatures
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    Chapter 35 Information Overload and Food Selection
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    Chapter 36 Diet Selection Under the Risk of Predation
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    Chapter 37 Interacting Effects of Predator and Prey Behavior in Determining Diets
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    Chapter 38 Hunting by the Hunted: Optimal Prey Selection by Foragers under Predation Hazard
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    Chapter 39 On the Role of Ecological Experimentation in Resource Management: Managing Fisheries Through Mechanistic Understanding of Predator Feeding Behaviour
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    Chapter 40 The Role of the Optimal Diet Predator in Multispecies Fishery Assessment
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    Chapter 41 Can there be a general theory of diet selection?
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    Chapter 42 The role and importance of optimal foraging theory in ecology
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Title
Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, June 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-75118-9
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978-3-64-275120-2, 978-3-64-275118-9
Editors

Hughes, Roger N.

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Country Count As %
Colombia 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 62 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 23%
Student > Master 13 20%
Researcher 9 14%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 9 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 48%
Environmental Science 12 19%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 3%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 11 17%