Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Predator Switching and the Interpretation of Animal Choice Behavior: The Case for Constrained Optimization....Pages 1-21
Foraging in the Context of Life-History : General Principles and Specific Models....Pages 23-38
The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off And Some Behavioural and Ecological Consequences....Pages 39-59
Timing Mechanisms in Optimal Foraging: Some Applications of Scalar Expectancy Theory....Pages 61-82
On Evaluation of Foraging Strategies Through Estimates of Reproductive Success....Pages 83-94
Active Diet Selection or Passive Reflection of Changing Food Availability: The Underwater Foraging Behaviour of Canvasback Ducks....Pages 95-109
Territorial Salamanders Evaluate Size and Chitinous Content of Arthropod Prey....Pages 111-126
Are Rules of Thumb Sufficient for the Starling’s Choice of Food According to Gain in Energy?....Pages 127-142
Prey Selection and Processing in a Stomatopod Crustacean....Pages 143-164
Time Scale and Diet Choice Decisions....Pages 165-185
Food Requirement and Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Shortfall Minimizers....Pages 187-213
The Combined Effects of Learning and Hunger in the Feeding Behaviour of the Fifteen-Spined Stickleback ( Spinachia Spinachia L.)....Pages 215-234
The Role of Behaviour and Morphology in the Selection of Prey by Pike....Pages 235-254
How Important are Nutrient Constraints in Optimal Foraging Models or are Spatial/Temporal Factors More Important?....Pages 255-280
Ecological and Morphological Aspects of Changes in Food Uptake Through the Ontogeny of Haplochromis Piceatus ....Pages 281-302
Predicting Ontogenetic Niche Shifts in the Field: What can be Gained by Foraging Theory?....Pages 303-321
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....Pages 323-341
Rules and Cues Used by Sheep Foraging in Monocultures....Pages 343-367
Constraints on Diet Selection and Foraging Behaviour in Mammalian Herbivores....Pages 369-393
Diet Selection by Generalist Herbivores: A Test of the Linear Programming Model....Pages 395-414
A Reply To Hobbs....Pages 415-422
Applicability of Five Diet-Selection Models to Various Foraging Challenges Ruminants Encounter....Pages 423-460
The Characteristics of Algae in Relation to their Vulnerability to Grazing Snails....Pages 461-478
Comparative Foraging Behavior of Tropical and Boreal Sea Urchins....Pages 479-514
Effects of Food Value of Artificial and Natural Sediments on Functional Response and Net Rate of Energy Gain by a Deposit-Feeding Polychaete....Pages 515-529
Supply-Side Optimization: Maximizing Absorptive Rates....Pages 531-556
Foraging Strategy of a Deposit Feeding Crab....Pages 557-568
Retention Efficiency, Perceptual Bias, and Active Choice as Mechanisms of Food Selection by Suspension-Feeding Zooplankton....Pages 569-594
Concentration-Variable Interactions Between Calanoid Copepods and Particles of Different Food Quality: Observations and Hypotheses....Pages 595-613
Water Processing in Filter-Feeding Bivalves....Pages 615-636
Behavioural Plasticity in the Suspension Feeding of Benthic Animals....Pages 637-660
How Trail Laying and Trail Following Can Solve Foraging Problems for Ant Colonies....Pages 661-678
Intraspecific Kleptoparasitism and Foraging Efficiency as Constraints on Food Selectin by Kelp Gulls Larus Dominicanus ....Pages 679-706
Foraging in the Black-Headed Gull: Compensatory site selection by immatures....Pages 707-720
Information Overload and Food Selection....Pages 721-737
Diet Selection Under the Risk of Predation....Pages 739-770
Interacting Effects of Predator and Prey Behavior in Determining Diets....Pages 771-796
Hunting by the Hunted: Optimal Prey Selection by Foragers under Predation Hazard....Pages 797-819
On the Role of Ecological Experimentation in Resource Management: Managing Fisheries Through Mechanistic Understanding of Predator Feeding Behaviour....Pages 821-846
The Role of the Optimal Diet Predator in Multispecies Fishery Assessment....Pages 847-862
Can there be a general theory of diet selection?....Pages 863-864
The role and importance of optimal foraging theory in ecology....Pages 865-866
Back Matter....Pages 867-887