Quantifying the adaptive value of learning in foraging behavior

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 478-489

  Eliassen, Sigrunn ^a   Jørgensen, Christian ^a   Mangel, Marc ^b   Giske, Jarl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Information value; Learning; Patch time allocation

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LEARNING; PATCHINESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; LEARNING;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; LEARNING; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 70349431284     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605370     Document Type: Article

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