Searching Behaviour

One Introduction.- 1 Theoretical framework.- Two Information for the Localization and Assessment of Resources.- 2 Orientation cues: information for searching.- 3 Scanning mechanisms.- 4 Initiating factors: when to search.- 5 Assessment mechanisms: resource, patch and habitat selection.- Three Search Mechanisms.- 6 Locating patches and distant resources.- 7 Restricting search to a patch.- 8 Foraging in the most profitable patches and leaving when profitability declines.- 9 When to return to a resource patch.- 10 Learning to forage efficiently.- 11 Exploratory behaviour.- 12 Central place foraging.- Four Sources of Variability.- 13 External environment.- 14 Internal environment.- 15 Genetic factors.- 16 Ontogenetic and maternal influences.- Five Methodology.- 17 Analysing search tracks.- 18 Computer simulations of search behaviour locomotory patterns.- References.

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