Author: Hughes, Roger N. ; editor: [ NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection ]
Title: Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection
Description: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1990. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xii,886 pp. Series: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division, NATO ASI Series. Series G, Ecological Sciences, no. 20.. Textual graphs & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 32 papers concerning Evaluation & Selection of Food Items; Constraints & Physiological State; Ontogenetic Changes in Food Selection; Bulk Processors: Mammalian Grazers; Invertebrate Grazers; Deposit Feeders; Filter Feeders; Interactions Among Foragers: Social Co-operation; Competition; Predation; Fisheries Management. Includes: Predator switching & the interperetation of animal choice behaviour: The case for constrained optimization; Active diet selection or passive reflection of changing food availability: The underwater foraging behaviour of canvasback ducks; Territorial salamanders evaluate size & chitinous content of arthropod prey; Prey selection & processing in a stomatopod crustacean; Time scale & diet decisions; The role of behaviour & morphology in the selection of prey by pike; Ecological & morphological aspects of changes in food uptake through the ontogeny of Haplochromis piceatus; Rules & cues used by sheep foraging in monocultures; Constraints on diet selection & foraging behaviour in mammalian herbivores; The characteristics of algae in relation to their vulnerability to grazing snails; Compraative forraging behavior of tropical & boreral sea urchins; Foraging strategy of a deposit feeding crab; Behavioural plasticity in the suspension feeding of benthic animals; How trail laying & trail following can solve forgaing problems for ant colonies; Diet selection under the risk of predation; The role & importance of optimal foraging theory in ecology; etc.

Keywords: Evolutionary Biology, Foraging, Ecology, Food Preferences, Animal Behavior, Behaviour, Ethology, ,