Foraging mode is an important aspect of life history, often associated with traits such as locomotor mode, energy budget, risk of predation and reproductive effort. Because of these life-history associations, classification of foraging mode can be conceptually useful. Lizards figured prominently in the historical development of foraging mode concepts, yet our current understanding is dominated ...

Foraging modalities (e.g. passive, sit-and-wait, active) and traits are plastic in some species, but the extent to which this plasticity affects interspecific competition remains unclear. Using a long-term laboratory mesocosm experiment, we quantified competition strength and the plasticity of foraging traits in a guild of generalist predators of arthropods with a range of foraging modalities. ...

A colony of red wood ants can inhabit more than one spatially separated nest, in a strategy called polydomy. Some nests within these polydomous colonies have no foraging trails to aphid colonies in the canopy. In this study we identify and investigate the possible roles of non-foraging nests in polydomous colonies of the wood ant Formica lugubris. To investigate the role of non-foraging nests w...

Detailed information acquired using tracking technology has the potential to provide accurate pictures of the types of movements and behaviors performed by animals. To date, such data have not been widely exploited to provide inferred information about the foraging habitat. We collected data using multiple sensors (GPS, time depth recorders, and accelerometers) from two species of diving seabir...

The objectives of the research are to understand how copepod ingestion and swimming behavior change over short (<2 hour) time scales, under a suite of different food and acclimation conditions. New techniques to determine the gut content of individual copepods are being developed to relate individual behavior to individual feeding success. Models will be used to test hypotheses of copepod forag...

In this paper we present a theory-based approach to designing tailorable groupware for the healthcare domain. Both literature and empirical data show the need, and difficulty, of designing groupware that is adaptable to match the dynamic requirements of real-life co-operation in telemedicine. We apply an existing social theory, the Information Foraging Theory, to explain natural tailoring behav...

0306-4573/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2012.03.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B. Osatu This work seeks to uncover and explain the dynamics of information foraging within small groups. The focus of this work is collaborative information foraging within multidisciplinary emergency response teams during the response to a si...

INTRODUCTION There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and t...

This paper presents the advantages of information foraging theory matched with traditional information retrieval theory and user behavior analysis theory, a search content framework for information foraging theory is described, on a thorough review of the two research branches i.e. the basic concept of information foraging theory and the elementary models of information foraging theory, an exte...

Anthropogenic noise has been increasing globally. Laboratory experiments suggest that noise disrupts foraging behavior across a range of species, but to reveal the full impacts of noise, we must examine the impacts of noise on foraging behavior among species in the wild. Owls are widespread nocturnal top predators and use prey rustling sounds for localizing prey when hunting. We conducted field...