Foraging and Flocking Behavior
In this laboratory exercise, the following issues are examined: 1) why neither predators nor prey go extinct when there is a long period of nonrenewal of the prey population 2) the effects of habitat on foraging speed 3) the advantages foragers can gain from experience in foraging 4) the advantage of exclusive use of an area for foragers 5) the effects of food density on foraging speed 6) the advantages of camouflage for prey 7) the effect of experience in forming search images for one out of several types of prey and 8) the advantages of foraging in mixed species flocks for avoiding predation.
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| Keywords | habitat structure; vegetation density; food color; food preference; predator; foraging behavior; territoriality; flocking; predator-prey dynamic |
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| Pedagogical Use Description | In this laboratory exercise, students will understand how the environmental variables of habitat structure, vegetation density and food color interact to affect short term behavioral decisions that animals make during their daily search for food; understand how habitat structure affects the ease of finding food and the avoidance of predators; understand how predator attributes such as food preference, experience, territoriality, and flocking influence food-seeking behavior; learn to graph and interpret experimental data. |
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| Full Name of Primary Author | Christopher Smith |
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| Primary Author Affiliation | Kansas State University |
| Primary Author email | cccsmith@ksu.edu |
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| Rights | Ecological Society of America's copyright restrictions |
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| Drought and Water Ecosystem Services Collection | Off |
| Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection | Off |
| Big Data Collection | Off |
| Editors Choice | No |
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| Date Of Record Submission | 2002-02-06 |
| I Agree to EcoEdDL's Copyright Policy & Terms of Use | No |
| Date Of Record Release | 2010-02-16 01:48:34 |
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| Date Last Modified | 2012-07-18 13:19:21 |
| Release Flag | Published |
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