Using an individual-based model to select among alternative foraging strategies of woodpigeons: Data support a memory-based model with a flocking mechanism

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 280, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-101

  Kulakowska K A ^a   Kulakowski T M ^a   Inglis, I R ^b   Smith, G C ^d   Haynes, P J ^b   Prosser, P ^b   Thorbek, P ^c   Sibly, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model complexity; Optimal foraging theory; Pesticide risk assessment; Spatial distribution; Structural sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PESTICIDES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING; MODEL COMPLEXITY; OPTIMAL FORAGING THEORY; PATTERN-ORIENTED MODELLING; PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LAND USE CHANGE; MEMORY; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; COLUMBA PALUMBUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84897430588     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.09.019     Document Type: Article

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