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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
No detailed description available for "Social Foraging Theory".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (379 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780691188348
Series Statement:
Monographs in Behavior and Ecology Series ; v.73
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5675313
DDC:
591.56/5118
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Social Foraging Theory: Definitions,Concepts, and Methods -- 1.1 What Is Social Foraging? -- 1.2 Concepts and Methods of Social Foraging Theory -- 1.3 Interactions Amon gSocial Foragers -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- Math Boxes 1.1-1.3 -- PART ONE: Group Membership Games -- 2 Two-Person Games: Competitive Solutions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Achieving an Aggregation Economy -- 2.3 A Symmetric Group Membership Game -- 2.4 An Asymmetric Group Membership Game -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- Math Box 2.1 -- 3 Two-Person Games: Conditional Cooperation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Food-Sharing with a Communal Cost -- 3.3 Food-Calling and Cooperation -- 3.4 Concluding Remarks -- Mat hBoxes 3.1-3.3 -- 4 Group Size in Aggregation Economies -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4. 2 Which Group Size to Expect? -- 4.3 The Effect of Genetic Relatedness on Equilibrium Group Size -- 4. 4 Integrating Entry Rules, Relatedness, and Aggressive Dominance -- 4. 5 Risk-Sensitive Group Membership Games -- 4. 6 Concluding Remarks -- Math Boxes 4.1-4.4 -- 5 Predicting Group Size in Dispersion Economies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Introduction to Continuous Input Models -- 5.3 Changing the Assumption sof Continuous Input Models -- 5.4 Introduction to Interference Models -- 5.5 Changing the Assumption sof Interference Models -- 5.6 Concluding Remarks -- PART TWO: Producer-Scrounger Decisions -- 6 An Introduction to Producer-Scrounger Games -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Diversity of Kleptoparasitism -- 6.3 Kleptoparasitism: A Game-Theoretic Approach -- 6.4 A Symmetric Rate-Maximizing Producer-Scrounger Model -- 6.5 Empirical Tests of the Rate-Maximizing Producer-Scrounger Model -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- Math Box 6.1 -- 7 Producer-Scrounger Games in Stochastic Environments -- 7.1 Introduction.
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7.2 A Stochastic Producer-Scrounger Game -- 7.3 Analysis of the Stochastic Game -- 7.4 Numerical Evaluation -- 7.5 Experimental Evidence of Risk-Sensitive Producer-Scrounger Decisions -- 7.6 Concluding Remarks -- Math Boxes 7.1-7.2 -- PART THREE: Decisions within Patches -- 8 Social Patch and Prey Models -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Models of Social Patch Exploitation -- 8.3 Tests of Social Patch Models -- 8.4 Social Prey Models -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks -- PART FOUR: Models of Phenotypic Diversity -- 9 Quantifying Phenotypic Diversity -- 9.1 Composition of Foraging Groups -- 9.2 Quantifying Variability in Foraging Behavior -- 9.3 Phenotypic Diversity -- 9.4 Concluding Remarks -- Math Box 9.1 -- 10 Learning in Foraging Groups -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Some Functional Definitions of Learning -- 10.3 Learning How: Individual Learning Only -- 10.4 Models of Individual Learning Only -- 10.5 Learning How: Social Learning -- 10.6 Models with Both Individual and Social Learning How -- 10.7 Learning About: Individual Learning -- 10.8 Learning About. Social Learning -- 10.9 Concluding Remarks -- Math Boxes 10.1-10.3 -- 11 Efficiency of Diversity: The Skill Pool -- 11.1 Background -- 11.2 A Skill Pool: Static Model -- 11.3 A Skill Pool: Stochastic Dynamic Model -- 11.4 Conclusions -- Math Box 11.1 -- PART FIVE: Final Thoughts -- 12 Synthesis and Conclusions -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Group Membership Models -- 12.3 Searching Decisions within Groups -- 12.4 Models for Decisions within Patches -- 12.5 Models of Phenotypic Diversity -- 12.6 Conclusions -- References -- Subject Index -- Species Index.
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