Resource defense in a group-foraging context

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-9

  Dubois, Frédérique ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a   Grant, James W A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Competitor asymmetry; Evolutionarily stable strategy model; Finder's advantage; Foraging groups; Resource defense

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CONTEST COMPETITION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037283732     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.1.2     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Beauchamp G, Giraldeau L-A, 1996. Group foraging revisited: information-sharing or producer-scrounger game? Am Nat 148:738-743.
2. Broom M, Ruxton GD, 1998. Evolutionarily stable stealing: game theory applied to kleptoparasitism. Behav Ecol 9:397-403.
3. Brown JL, 1964. The evolution of diversity in avian territorial systems. Wilson Bull 76:160-169.
4. Brunkow PE, Collins JP, 1998. Group size structure affects patterns of aggression in larval salamanders. Behav Ecol 9:508-514.
5. Carpenter FL, MacMillen RE, 1976. Threshold model of feeding territoriality and test with a Hawaiian honeycreeper. Science 194:639-642.
6. Chapman MR, Kramer DL, 1996. Guarded resources: the effect of intruder number on the tactics and success of defenders and intruders. Anim Behav 52:83-94.
7. Emlen ST, Oring LW, 1977. Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems. Science 197:215-223.
8. Enquist M, Leimar O, Ljungberg T, Mallner Y, Segerdahl N, 1990. A test of the sequential assessment game: fighting in the cichlid fish Nannacara anomala. Anim Behav 40:1-14.
9. Erlandsson A, 1988. Food-sharing versus monopolising prey: a form of kleptoparasitism in Velia caparai (Heteroptera). Oikos 53:203-206.
10. Evans DL, Shehadi-Moacdieh M, 1998. Body size and prior residency in staged encounters between female prawns, Palaemon elegans Rathke (Decapoda: Palamonidae). Anim Behav 36:452-455.
11. Furuichi T, 1983. Interindividual distance and influence of dominance on feeding in a natural Japanese macaque troop. Primates 24:445-455.
12. Giraldeau L-A, Beauchamp G, 1999. Food exploitation: searching for the optimal joining policy. Trends Ecol Evol 14:102-106.
13. Giraldeau L-A, Caraco T, 2000. Social foraging theory. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
14. Giraldeau L-A, Hogan JA, Clinchy MJ, 1990. The payoffs to producing and scrounging: what happens when patches are divisible? Ethology 85:132-146.
15. Giraldeau L-A, Soos C, Beauchamp G, 1994. A test of the producer-scrounger foraging game in captive flocks of spice finches, Lonchura punctulata. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 34:251-256.
16. Goldberg JL, Grant JWA, Lefebvre L, 2001. Effects of the temporal predictability and spatial clumping of food on the intensity of competitive aggression in the Zenaida dove. Behav Ecol 12:490-495.
17. Grant JWA, 1993. Whether or not to defend? The influence of resource distribution. Mar Behav Physiol 23:137-153.
18. Grant JWA, Gaboury CL, Levitt HL, 2000. Competitor-to-resource ratio, a general formulation of operational sex ratio, as a predictor of competitive aggression in Japanese medaka (Pisces: Oryziidae). Behav Ecol 11:670-675.
19. Grant JWA, Girard IL, Breau C, Weir LK, 2002. Influence of food abundance on competitive aggression in juvenile convict cichlids. Anim Behav 63:323-330.
20. Grant JWA, Guha RT, 1993. Spatial clumping of food increases its monopolization and defense by convict cichlids, Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum. Behav Ecol 4:293-296.
21. Mangel M, 1990. Resource divisibility, predation and group formation. Anim Behav 39:1163-1172.
22. Maynard Smith J, 1976. Evolution and the theory of games. Am Sci 64:41-45.
23. Maynard Smith J, Price GR, 1973. The logic of animal conflict. Nature 246:15-18.
24. Monaghan P, Metcalfe NB, 1985. Group foraging in wild brown hares: effects of resource distribution and social status. Anim Behav 33:993-999.
25. Parker GA, 1984. The producer/scrounger model and its relevance to sexuality. In: Producers and scroungers: strategies of exploitation and parasitism (Barnard CJ, ed). New York: Chapman & Hall; 127-153.
26. Ranta E, Peuhkuri N, Laurila A, Rita H, Metcalfe NB, 1996. Producers, scroungers and foraging group structure. Anim Behav 51:171-175.
27. Robb SE, Grant JWA, 1998. Interactions between spatial and temporal clumping of food affect the intensity of aggression in Japanese medaka. Anim Behav 56:29-34.
28. Saito C, 1996. Dominance and feeding success in female Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata: effects of food patch size and inter-patch distance. Anim Behav 51:967-980.
29. Sirot E, 2000. An evolutionarily stable strategy for aggressiveness in feeding groups. Behav Ecol 11:351-356.
30. Turner GF, 1994. The fighting tactics of male mouthbrooding cichlids: the effects of size and residency. Anim Behav 47:655-662.
31. Vickery WL, Giraldeau L-A, Templeton JJ, Kramer DL, Chapman CA, 1991. Producers, scroungers, and group foraging. Am Nat 137:847-863.
32. Zahavi A, 1971. The social behaviour of the white wagtail Motacilla alba alba wintering in Israel. Ibis 113:203-211.