| Title |
Patch depletion, niche structuring and the evolution of co-operative foraging
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-11-335 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel J van der Post, Dirk Semmann |
| Abstract |
Many animals live in groups. One proposed reason is that grouping allows cooperative food finding. Group foraging models suggest that grouping could increase food finding rates, but that such group processes could be evolutionarily unstable. These models assume discrete food patches which are fully detectable. However, often animals may only be able to perceive local parts of larger-scale environmental patterns. We therefore use a spatial individual-based model where food patches are aggregates of food items beyond the scale of individual perception. We then study the evolution of foraging and grouping behavior in environments with different resource distributions. |
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