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Food patch use of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) varies with personality traits
BackgroundThe classic optimal foraging theory (OFT) predicts animals’ food patch use assuming that individuals in a population use the same strategy...
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Food patch selection by the largest European herbivore
The scaling relationship between digestive system and body mass shapes foraging strategies in herbivores. The Jarman–Bell principle and the forage...
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Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model
AbstractChapman et al.’s (Behav Ecol Sociobiol 36:59–70,
1995 ) ecological constraints model posits that the size and distribution of food patches...
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Top-down and bottom-up forces explain patch utilization by two deer species and forest recruitment
Ungulates play an important role in temperate systems. Through their feeding behaviour, they can respond to vegetation by selecting patches or modify...
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Influence of Parasitoid States on the Propensity to Enter and the Stay in a Patch
Patch exploitation strategies have received considerable attention since the development of the marginal value theorem. As an excellent biological...
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Bee movement between natural fragments is rare despite differences in species, patch, and matrix variables
ContextPersistence of organisms in fragmented landscapes often depends on the ability of individuals to move between habitat patches. This movement...
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Patch isolation and periodic environmental disturbances have idiosyncratic effects on local and regional population variabilities in meta-food chains
While habitat loss is a known key driver of biodiversity decline, the impact of other landscape properties, such as patch isolation, is far less...
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Colonization–competition dynamics of basal species shape food web complexity in island metacommunities
Exploring how food web complexity emerges and evolves in island ecosystems remains a major challenge in ecology. Food webs assembled from multiple...
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N2O emission factors for cattle urine: effect of patch characteristics and environmental drivers
Urine patches from grazing cattle are hotspots of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions. The default IPCC emission factor for urine patches (EF urine ) is...
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The relative importance of forest cover and patch-level drivers for phyllostomid bat communities in the Amazonian Savannas
ContextAnalyze the multiple dimensions of biodiversity under a local and landscape lens in natural habitats, such as Amazonian savannas, is...
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Extension of patch residence time of a biocontrol agent by selective breeding contributes to its early establishment and suppression of a pest population
Biocontrol agents must be released into low densities of insect pests. However, the movement patterns of biocontrol agents rapidly switch from...
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Food Security Through Farming Subsistence Crops
Global food security is achieved only when all individuals, always, have physical, financial, and ready access to enough, safe, and nourishing food...
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Flower choice by the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is not influenced by colour-similarity to a higher-reward flower in the same patch
Floral choice by bees is influenced by the bees’ previous experience with flowers. For example, bees may learn to associate particular flower colours...
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Habitat quality, not patch isolation, drives distribution and abundance of two light-demanding butterflies in fragmented coppice landscapes
Coppice forests are socio-ecological systems especially rich in biodiversity. They have been transformed into high forest and abandoned across large...
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Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring
AbstractIn this study, we investigated the influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe...
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Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand
This article explores linkages between food security, food sovereignty and foodways within the context of poor urban populations in Southeast Asia....
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Playbacks of food-associated calls attract chimpanzees towards known food patches in a captive setting
Food-associated calls have received much research attention due to their potential to refer to discovered food in a word-like manner. Studies have...
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Food, Water, and Climate
Soil is the center of all systems including food, water, and climate (Fig. 22.1). Most recent discussions have focused on food, energy, and water...
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Applications of Capsaicin in the Food Industry
The change in the eating habits of a considerable portion of the population, aiming at a better quality of life, has required the food industry to...
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Landscape openness, not patch size or grassland amount, drives area sensitivity of songbirds in northern tall-grass prairies
ContextArea sensitivity, a behaviour whereby smaller patches of habitat are avoided, is of significant conservation concern for North American...
