Foraging
Subtitle: behavior and ecology
By: edited by David W. Stephens, Joel S. Brown, and Ronald C. Ydenberg
Contributors: Stephens, David W., 1955-; Brown, Joel S. 1959-; Ydenberg, Ronald C
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780226772639; 9780226772646
Subjects: Animals -- Food
Description: 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.--COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-586) and index
Table of contents: title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark -- Ronald C. Ydenberg; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark -- Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Peter A. Bednekoff; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark -- Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Peter A. Bednekoff -- games social foragers play / -- Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark -- Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Peter A. Bednekoff -- games social foragers play / -- Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field -- Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark -- Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Peter A. Bednekoff -- games social foragers play / -- Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field -- Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell -- Burt P. Kotler and Joel S. Brown; title: an overview / -- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- David W. Stephens -- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Jonathan Newman -- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark -- Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Peter A. Bednekoff -- games social foragers play / -- Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field -- Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell -- Burt P. Kotler and Joel S. Brown -- Joel S. Brown and Burt P. Kotler; title: an overview /-- Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens-- David W. Stephens-- David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell-- Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs-- Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt-- Jonathan Newman-- Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark-- Ronald C. Ydenberg-- Peter A. Bednekoff-- games social foragers play /-- Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field-- Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell-- Burt P. Kotler and Joel S. Brown-- Joel S. Brown and Burt P. Kotler-- a prospectus /-- Michael L. Rosenzweig