Social foraging theory /
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| Author / Creator: | Giraldeau, Luc-Alain, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xiii, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in behavior and ecology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4284593 |
Table of 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 Among Social Foragers
- 1.4. Concluding Remarks
- Math Boxes 1.1-1.3
- Part 1. 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
- Math Boxes 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 Assumptions of Continuous Input Models
- 5.4. Introduction to Interference Models
- 5.5. Changing the Assumptions of Interference Models
- 5.6. Concluding Remarks
- Part 2. 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
- 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
- 7.6. Concluding Remarks
- Math Boxes 7.1-7.2
- Part 3. Decisions within Patches
- 8. Social Patch and Play 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 4. 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 5. 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
- Conclusions
- References
- Subject Index
- Species Index
