Format:
1 online resource (626 pages)
ISBN:
9780226772653
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9780226772646
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9780226772639
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0226772640
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0226772632
Content:
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. This and related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and conservation biology-and they can be further extrapolated in economics, neurobiology, and computer science. Foraging is the first comprehensive review of the topic in more than twenty years. A monumental undertaking, this volume brings together twenty-two experts from throughout the field to offer the latest on the mechanics of foraging, modern foraging theory, and foraging ecology. The fourteen essays cover all the relevant issues, including cognition, individual behavior, caching behavior, parental behavior, antipredator behavior, social behavior, population and community ecology, herbivory, and conservation. Considering a wide range of taxa, from birds to mammals to amphibians, Foraging will be the definitive guide to the field.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Foraging: An Overview -- Part I - Foraging and Information Processing -- 2. Models of Information Use -- 3. Neuroethology of Foraging -- 4. Cognition for Foraging -- Part II - Processing, Herbivory, and Storage -- 5. Food Acquisition, Processing, and Digestions -- 6. Herbivory -- 7. Energy Storage and Expenditure -- Part III - Modern Foraging Theory -- 8. Provisioning -- 9. Foraging in the Face of Danger -- 10. Foraging with Others: Games Social Foragers Play -- Part IV - Foraging Ecology -- 11. Foraging and Population Dynamics -- 12. Community Ecology -- 13. Foraging and the Ecology of Fear -- 14. On Foraging Theory, Humans, and the Conservation of Diversity: A Prospectus -- Contributors -- Literature Cited -- Index.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Foraging: An Overview; Part I - Foraging and Information Processing; 2. Models of Information Use; 3. Neuroethology of Foraging; 4. Cognition for Foraging; Part II - Processing, Herbivory, and Storage; 5. Food Acquisition, Processing, and Digestions; 6. Herbivory; 7. Energy Storage and Expenditure; Part III - Modern Foraging Theory; 8. Provisioning; 9. Foraging in the Face of Danger; 10. Foraging with Others: Games Social Foragers Play; Part IV - Foraging Ecology; 11. Foraging and Population Dynamics; 12. Community Ecology
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13. Foraging and the Ecology of Fear14. On Foraging Theory, Humans, and the Conservation of Diversity: A Prospectus; Contributors; Literature Cited; Index
Additional Edition:
9780226772639
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Foraging Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007 0226772640
Additional Edition:
0226772632
Additional Edition:
9780226772646
Additional Edition:
9780226772639
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Nahrungserwerb
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