Individual Behavior and Community Dynamics
Individual Behavior and Community Dynamics
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Author(s): Fryxell, John M.
ISBN No.: 9780412994111
Pages: 224
Year: 199710
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 151.79
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Objectives.- 1.2 Topics to be Covered.- 1.3 Predator--Prey Dynamics.- 1.


4 Competition.- 1.5 Summary.- 2 Diet Selection.- 2.1 Nutrient-Maximizing Diets.- 2.1.


1 Experimental Evidence for Optimal Diets.- 2.1.2 Partial Preferences.- 2.1.3 Diet Selection and the Functional Response.- 2.


1.4 Experimental Tests of the Functional Response.- 2.1.5 Diet Choice and Population Dynamics.- 2.2 Evolutionary Dynamics of Diet Selection.- 2.


3 Balanced Nutrient Diets.- 2.3.1 Experimental Evidence for Balanced Diets.- 2.3.2 Balanced Diets and Population Dynamics.- 2.


4 Summary.- 3 Prey Defense.- 3.1 Types of Defenses.- 3.2 Defense Effects and Population Parameters.- 3.3 Parameter Effects on Dynamics.


- 3.4 Time Allocation.- 3.4.1 Risk-Sensitive Prey.- 3.4.2 3-Link System.


- 3.5 Optimal Defense.- 3.5.1 Perfectly Timed Induced Defense.- 3.5.2 Lagged Induced Defense.


- 3.6 Summary.- 4 Habitat Use and Spatial Structure.- 4.1 Habitat Variation.- 4.2 Energy-Maximizing Habitat Use.- 4.


2.1 Experimental Evidence for Optimal Habitat Choice.- 4.2.2 Habitat Choice and Predator--Prey Dynamics.- 4.2.3 Habitat Choice and Competitive Dynamics.


- 4.3 Evasion of Predators by Prey.- 4.3.1 Experimental Evidence of Predator Evasion.- 4.3.2 Food Chain Dynamics.


- 4.4 Spatial Structure.- 4.4.1 Experimental Evidence of Optimal Patch Use.- 4.4.2 Patchy Predator--Prey Dynamics.


- 4.4.3 Experimental Evidence of Patchy Predator--Prey Dynamics.- 4.5 Summary.- 5 Size-Selective Predation.- 5.1 Diet Selection Model.


- 5.1.1 Self-Thinning.- 5.1.2 Size-Dependent Consumption.- 5.1.


3 Size-Selection and Population Dynamics.- 5.2 Partial Predation Model.- 5.2.1 Consumption Model.- 5.2.


2 Partial Predation and Population Dynamics.- 5.3 The Size Structure Challenge.- 5.4 Summary.- 6 Interference and Territoriality.- 6.1 Interference.


- 6.1.1 Interference and Population Dynamics.- 6.1.2 Social Structure and Interference Levels.- 6.1.


3 Spatial Structure and Interference.- 6.2 Territoriality.- 6.2.1 Optimal Territory Size.- 6.2.


2 Evidence for Optimal Territory Size.- 6.2.3 Optimal Territory Size and Population Dynamics.- 6.2.4 Systematic Foraging.- 6.


2.5 Central-Place Foraging and Prey Spatial Refugia.- 6.2.6 Central-Place Foraging and Population Dynamics.- 6.3 Summary.- 7 Epilogue.


- References.


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