The evolution of spatial memory

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-32

  Grove, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection distance; Foraging; Patch density; Search

Indexed keywords

FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOURS; NATURAL SELECTION; PATCH DENSITIES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RESOURCE LOCATION; SEARCH; SPATIAL MEMORY;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS;

EFFICIENCY;

ANIMAL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84873262392     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: 18793134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

References (91)

1. Aiello L.C., Wheeler P. The expensive tissue hypothesis: the brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution. Current Anthropology 1995, 36:199.
2. Altmann S.A. Baboons, space, time, and energy. American Zoologist 1974, 14:221.
3. Anderson D.J. Optimal foraging and the traveling salesman. Theoretical Population Biology 1983, 24:145.
4. Barrett L., Lowen C.B. Random walks and the gas model: spacing behaviour of Grey-Cheeked Mangabeys. Functional Ecology 1998, 12:857.
5. Bartumeus F. Levy processes in animal movement: an evolutionary hypothesis. Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society 2007, 15:151.
6. Bartumeus F., Catalan J., Fulco U.L., Lyra M.L., Viswanathan G.M. Optimizing the encounter rate in biological interactions: levy versus Brownian strategies. Physical Review Letters 2002, 88:23.
7. Bateson M., Kacelnik A. Risk-sensitive foraging: decision-making in variable environments. Cognitive Ecology 1998, 297-341. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. R. Dukas (Ed.).
8. Bell W.J. Searching Behavior: The Behavioral Ecology of Finding Resources 1991, Chapman and Hall, Cambridge.
9. Benhamou S. Efficiency of area-concentrated searching behavior in a continuous patchy environment. Journal of Theoretical Biology 1992, 159:67.
10. Benhamou S. Spatial memory and searching efficiency. Animal Behaviour 1994, 47:1423.
11. Benhamou S. How many animals really do the Levy walk?. Ecology 2007, 88:1962.
12. Benhamou S. How many animals really do the levy walk? Reply. Ecology 2008, 89:2351.
13. D. Bernoulli, Exposition of a new theory on the measurement of risk. Econometrica 22 (1954), 23-36 [Translation of Bernoulli, D. 1938. Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis. Papers of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St Petersburg 5, 175-192].
14. Boyer D., Ramos-Fernandez G., Miramontes O., Mateos J.L., Cocho G., Larralde H., Ramos H., Rojas F. Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2006, 273:1743.
15. Bures J., Buresova O., Nerad L. Can rats solve a simple version of the traveling salesman problem?. Behavioural Brain Research 1992, 52:133.
16. Campbell D.J., Clarke D.J. Nearest neighbor tests of significance for non-randomness in spatial distribution of singing crickets (Teleogryllus commodus (Walker)). Animal Behaviour 1971, 19:750.
17. Caraco T. On foraging time allocation in a stochastic environment. Ecology 1980, 61:119.
18. Chapman C.A., Wrangham R.W., Chapman L.J. Ecological constraints on group size: an analysis of spider monkey and chimpanzee subgroups. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1995, 36:59.
19. Charnov E.L. Optimal foraging, marginal value theorem. Theoretical Population Biology 1976, 9:129.
20. Clark P.J., Evans F.C. Distance to nearest neighbor as a measure of spatial relationships in populations. Ecology 1954, 35:445.
21. Cody M.L. Finch flocks in the Mohave desert. Theoretical Population Biology 1971, 2:142.
22. Cody M.L. Optimization in ecology. Science 1974, 183:1156.
23. Cohen D. Optimizing reproduction in a randomly varying environment. Journal of Theoretical Biology 1966, 12:119.
24. Cole J.P., King C.A.M. Quantitative Geography: Techniques and Theories in Geography 1968, Wiley, London.
25. Cramer A.E., Gallistel C.R. Vervet monkeys as travelling salesmen. Nature 1997, 387. 464-464.
26. Dally J.M., Emery N.J., Clayton N.S. Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when. Science 2006, 312:1662.
27. Dally J.M., Emery N.J., Clayton N.S. Avian theory of mind and counter espionage by food-caching western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica). European Journal of Developmental Psychology 2010, 7:17.
28. E. Dempster, Maintenance of genetic diversity, in: Cold Spring Harbour Symposium on Quantitative Biology, vol. 20, 1955, pp. 25-31.
29. Dorigo M., Gambardella L.M. Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem. Biosystems 1997, 43:73.
30. Dunbar R.I.M. The mating system of callitrichid primates. 1. Conditions for the coevolution of pair bonding and twinning. Animal Behaviour 1995, 50:1057.
31. Farnsworth K.D., Beecham J.A. How do grazers achieve their distribution? A continuum of models from random diffusion to the ideal free distribution using biased random walks. American Naturalist 1999, 153:509.
32. Fortin M.-J., Dale M. Spatial Analysis: A Guide for Ecologists 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
33. Fretwell S.D., Lucas H.L.J. On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds, 1: theoretical development. Acta Biotheoretica 1970, 19:16.
34. Gallistel C.R., Cramer A.E. Computations on metric maps in mammals: getting oriented and choosing a multi-destination route. Journal of Experimental Biology 1996, 199:211.
35. Gautestad A.O., Mysterud I. Intrinsic scaling complexity in animal dispersion and abundance. American Naturalist 2005, 165:44.
36. Gautestad A.O., Mysterud I. The home range fractal: from random walk to memory-dependent space use. Ecological Complexity 2010, 7:458.
37. Gautestad A.O., Mysterud L. Complex animal distribution and abundance from memony-dependent kinetics. Ecological Complexity 2006, 3:44.
38. Gibson J.J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception 1979, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
39. Gibson J.J. The theory of affordances. Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing: Towards an Ecological Psychology 1977, 67-82. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. R. Shaw, J. Bransford (Eds.).
40. Gillespie J. Polymorphism in patchy environments. American Naturalist 1974, 108:145.
41. Gross J.E., Zank C., Hobbs N.T., Spalinger D.E. Movement rules for herbivores in spatially heterogeneous environments: responses to small-scale pattern. Landscape Ecology 1995, 10:209.
42. Grove M. Logistical mobility reduces subsistence risk in hunting economies. Journal of Archaeological Science 2010, 37:1913.
43. Grove M. Space, time, and group size: a model of constraints on primate social foraging. Animal Behaviour 2012, 83:411.
44. Grove M., Pearce E., Dunbar R.I.M. Fission-fusion and the evolution of hominin social systems. Journal of Human Evolution 2012, 62:191.
45. Haldane J.B.S., Jayakar S.D. Polymorphism due to selection of varying direction. Journal of Genetics 1962, 58:237.
46. Higgins C.L., Strauss R.E. Discrimination and classification of foraging paths produced by search-tactic models. Behavioral Ecology 2004, 15:248.
47. Hutchinson J.M.C., Waser P.M. Use, misuse and extensions of " ideal gas" models of animal encounter. Biological Reviews 2007, 82:335.
48. Isler K., van Schaik C.P. The expensive brain: a framework for explaining evolutionary changes in brain size. Journal of Human Evolution 2009, 57:392.
49. Jetz W., Carbone C., Fulford J., Brown J.H. The scaling of animal space use. Science 2004, 306:266.
50. Kacelnik A., Bateson M. Risky theories - the effects of variance on foraging decisions. American Zoologist 1996, 36:402.
51. Kacelnik A., Bateson M. Risk-sensitivity: crossroads for theories of decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 1997, 1:304.
52. Kacelnik A., Brito Abreu F. Risky choice and Weber's law. Journal of Theoretical Biology 1998, 194:289-298.
53. Klaassen R.H.G., Nolet B.A., van Gils J.A., Bauer S. Optimal movement between patches under incomplete information about the spatial distribution of food items. Theoretical Population Biology 2006, 70:452.
54. Kotliar N.B., Wiens J.A. Multiple scales of patchiness and patch structure: a hierarchical framework for the study of heterogeneity. Oikos 1990, 59:253.
55. Latane H.A., Tuttle D.L. Criteria for portfolio building. Journal of Finance 1967, 22:359.
56. Lee M.S.Y., Doughty P. The geometric meaning of macroevolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2003, 18:263.
57. Levins R. Theory of fitness in a heterogeneous environment. 1. Fitness set and adaptive function. American Naturalist 1962, 96:361.
58. Levins R. Evolution in Changing Environments 1968, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
59. Markowitz H. Portfolio selection. Journal of Finance 1952, 7:77.
60. Marsh B., Kacelnik A. Framing effects and risky decisions in starlings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002, 99:3352.
61. Menzel E.W. Chimpanzee spatial memory organization. Science 1973, 182:943.
62. Normand E., Ban S.D., Boesch C. Forest chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) remember the location of numerous fruit trees. Animal Cognition 2009, 12:797.
63. Noser R., Byrne R.W. Mental maps in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus): using inter-group encounters as a natural experiment. Animal Cognition 2007, 10:331.
64. Noser R., Byrne R.W. How do wild baboons (Papio ursinus) plan their routes? Travel among multiple high-quality food sources with inter-group competition. Animal Cognition 2010, 13:145.
65. Ohashi K., Thomson J.D., D'Souza D. Trapline foraging by bumble bees: IV. Optimization of route geometry in the absence of competition. Behavioral Ecology 2007, 18:1.
66. Olsson O., Brown J.S. The foraging benefits of information and the penalty of ignorance. Oikos 2006, 112:260.
67. Oster G.F., Wilson E.O. Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects 1978, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
68. Pyke G.H. Optimal foraging: movement patterns of bumblebees between inflorescences. Theoretical Population Biology 1978, 13:72.
69. Pyke G.H. Are animals efficient harvesters?. Animal Behaviour 1978, 26:241.
70. Pyke G.H. Optimal foraging in hummingbirds: rule of movement between inflorescences. Animal Behaviour 1981, 29:889.
71. Ramos-Fernandez G., Boyer D., Gomez V.P. A complex social structure with fission-fusion properties can emerge from a simple foraging model. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2006, 60:536.
72. Real L.A. Fitness, uncertainty, and the role of diversification in evolution and behavior. American Naturalist 1980, 115:623.
73. Real L.A. On uncertainty and the law of diminishing returns in evolution and behavior. Limits to Action: the Allocation of Individual Behavior 1980, 37-64. Academic Press, New York. J.E.R. Staddon (Ed.).
74. Root R.B., Kareiva P.M. The search for resources by cabbage butterflies (Pieris rapae): ecological consequences and adaptive significance of Markovian movements in a patchy environment. Ecology 1984, 65:147.
75. Saleh N., Chittka L. Traplining in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): a foraging strategy's ontogeny and the importance of spatial reference memory in short-range foraging. Oecologia 2007, 151:719.
76. Schoener T. Theory of feeding strategies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1971, 2:369.
77. Schreier A.L., Grove M. Ranging patterns of hamadryas baboons: random walk analyses. Animal Behaviour 2010, 80:75.
78. Shafir S. Risk-sensitive foraging: the effect of relative variability. Oikos 2000, 88:663.
79. Simons A.M. The continuity of microevolution and macroevolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2002, 15:688.
80. Stearns S.C. Daniel Bernoulli (1738): evolution and economics under risk. Journal of Biosciences 2000, 25:221.
81. Stephens D.W. The logic of risk-sensitive foraging preferences. Animal Behaviour 1981, 29:628.
82. Strier K.B. Atelinae adaptations: behavioral strategies and ecological constraints. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1992, 88:515.
83. Viswanathan G.M., Buldyrev S.V., Havlin S., da Luz M.G.E., Raposo E.P., Stanley H.E. Optimizing the success of random searches. Nature 1999, 401:911.
84. von Uexküll J. A stroll through the worlds of animals and men: a picture book of invisible worlds. Instinctive Behavior: The Development of a Modern Concept 1934 1957, 5-80. Methuen, London. C.H. Schiller (Ed.).
85. Weber E.U., Shafir S., Blais A.R. Predicting risk sensitivity in humans and lower animals: risk as variance or coefficient of variation. Psychological Review 2004, 111:430.
86. Wiener J.M., Ehbauer N.N., Mallot H.A. Planning paths to multiple targets: memory involvement and planning heuristics in spatial problem solving. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung 2009, 73:644.
87. Wiens J.A. Spatial scaling in ecology. Functional Ecology 1989, 3:385.
88. Young W.E., Trent R.H. Geometric mean approximations of individual security and portfolio performance. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 1969, 4:179.
89. Zollner P.A., Lima S.L. Search strategies for landscape-level interpatch movements. Ecology 1999, 80:1019.
90. Johnston T.D. Selective costs and benefits in the evolution of learning. Advantages in the Study of Behavior 1982, 12:65.
91. Wrangham R.W., Gittleman J.L., Chapman C.A. Constraints on group size in primates and carnivores: population density and day range as asays of exploitation competition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1993, 32:199.