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Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection examines animals belonging to diverse trophic groups, from carnivores, herbivores, micro-algal grazers, to filter-feeders and detritus-feeders. In the past Optimal Foraging Theory has been applied to all these groups, but in different ways and in disci plines that rarely overlap. Here concepts and developments hitherto scattered in the literature are drawn together. This uniquely broad synthesis captures the state of the art in the study of diet selection and prescribes new objectives in theoretical development and research.
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Table of contents (42 papers)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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Evaluation and Selection of Food Items
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Constraints and Physiological State
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Bulk Processors: Mammalian Grazers
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection
Editors: Roger N. Hughes
Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries G:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75118-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-75120-2Published: 21 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-75118-9Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0258-1256
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 886
Topics: Zoology, Ecology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Agriculture, Forestry