Foraging

Foreword 
John Krebs and Alex Kacelnik 
Acknowledgments 

1 Foraging: An Overview 
 Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown, and David W. Stephens 
 Box 1.1 Prehistory: Before Foraging Met Danger
   Peter A. Bednekoff 
 Box 1.2 Diving and Foraging by the Common Eider
   Colin W. Clark 
 Box 1.3 A Two-Player, Symmetric, Matrix Game
 Box 1.4 A Two-Player Continuous Game

Part I Foraging and Information Processing

2 Models of Information Use 
 David W. Stephens 

3 Neuroethology of Foraging 
 David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell 
 Box 3.1 Glossary
 Box 3.2 A Nobel Prize in the Molecular Basis of Memory
 Box 3.3 Neural Mechanisms of Reward
   Peter Shizgal 

4 Cognition for Foraging 
 Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs 
 Box 4.1 Learning in the Laboratory

Part II Processing, Herbivory, and Storage

5 Food Acquisition, Processing, and Digestions 
 Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt 
 Box 5.1 Modeling Digestive Modulation in an Ecological Framework
   Christopher J. Whelan 
 Box 5.2 More than a Matter of Taste
   Frederick D. Provenza 

6 Herbivory 
 Jonathan Newman 
 Box 6.1 Herbivory versus Carnivory: Different Means for Similar Ends
   David Raubenheimer 
 Box 6.2 Animal Farm: Food Provisioning and Abnormal Oral Behaviors in Captive Herbivores
   Georgia Mason 

7 Energy Storage and Expenditure 
 Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark 
 Box 7.1 Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Energy Regulation in Mammals
   Stephen C. Woods and Thomas W. Castonguay 
 Box 7.2 Energy Stores in Migrating Birds
   Åke Lindström 
 Box 7.3 What Current Models Can and Cannot Tell Us about Adaptive Energy Storage
   Alasdair Houston and John McNamara 

Part III Modern Foraging Theory

8 Provisioning 
 Ronald C. Ydenberg 
 Box 8.1 Effects of Social Interactions at Resource Points on Provisioning Tactics
 Box 8.2 Provisioning and Spatial Patterns of Resource Exploitation
 Box 8.3 Variance-Sensitive Provisioning

9 Foraging in the Face of Danger 
 Peter A. Bednekoff 
 Box 9.1 Allocation of Foraging Effort when Danger Varies over Time
 Box 9.2 Three Models of Information Flow in Groups

10 Foraging with Others: Games Social Foragers Play 
 Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field 
 Box 10.1 The Ideal Free Distribution
   Ian M. Hamilton 
 Box 10.2 Genetic Relatedness and Group Size
 Box 10.3 The Rate-Maximizing Producer-Scrounger Game

Part IV Foraging Ecology

11 Foraging and Population Dynamics 
 Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell 
 Box 11.1 Basic Concepts in Population Dynamics

12 Community Ecology 
 Burt P. Kotler and Joel S. Brown 
 Box 12.1 Isolegs and Isodars

13 Foraging and the Ecology of Fear 
 Joel S. Brown and Burt P. Kotler 
 Box 13.1 Stress Hormones and the Predation-Starvation Trade-off
   Vladimir V. Pravosudov 
 Box 13.2 Giving-up Densities
   Joel S. Brown 

14 On Foraging Theory, Humans, and the Conservation of Diversity: A Prospectus 
 Michael L. Rosenzweig 

Contributors 
Literature Cited 
Index