Foraging

Aimee Dunlap; David W. Stephens

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.21014-6

Foraging

Aimee Dunlap, David W. Stephens

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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This chapter considers foraging behavior and its connections with learning and memory. The chapter reviews the basic models of foraging that behavioral ecologists have developed over the last 40 years. These models provide an economic framework for the study of foraging. Animals forage in a changing environment, and they must adjust their foraging to these changes. Learning and memory play a key role in making these adjustments. The chapter discusses learning mechanisms constraining foraging behavior and how economic principles affect the fitness value of learning. Finally, the chapter reviews the emerging topics of nutritional geometry, semantic patches, and the neuroscience of foraging, and discusses their connections with learning and memory.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Learning and Memory
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.21014-6
State	Published - Jul 19 2017

Keywords

Animal groups
Diet selection
Ecology
Economics
Evolution
Fear
Feeding
Foraging
Game theory
Information Models
Optimality
Patch exploitation
Predation
Sampling
Sociality

Disciplines

Life Sciences
Biology

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