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  title info:
    title: Patch use under predation hazard
    sub title: effects of the red imported fire ant on deer mice foraging behavior
  name:
    name part: Holtcamp, Wendee Nicole
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xi, 68 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: associated with foraging in the presence of fire ants were
  abstract: by examining two aspects of patch use: density-dependence of
  abstract: compensated for by biasing effort toward rich patches. Mice
  abstract: disproportionately higher harvest rate in rich patches in the
  abstract: experimental arena containing two rich and two poor resource
  abstract: fire ants, and were filled with 5 or 16 whole sunflower seeds
  abstract: harvest. Mice also made significantly more patch visits,
  abstract: harvested more seeds, spent more time, and had a
  abstract: I compared patch use patterns of deer mice foraging in the
  abstract: in the absence of fire ants, meaning the mice harvested the
  abstract: in their presence. Resource harvest was density-independent
  abstract: increased costs or lost time due to taking seeds to
  abstract: made more out-of-patch foraging bouts (taking seeds to
  abstract: mixed in with 250 ml sand. Foraging strategy was identified
  abstract: of rich and poor patches in their absence.
  abstract: patches, resulting in positively density-dependent resource
  abstract: patches. All patches either had fire ants or did not have
  abstract: presence and absence of a non-conventional predation hazard,
  abstract: presence and absence of fire ants. The increased costs
  abstract: presence of fire ants, mice biased effort toward rich
  abstract: presence of fire ants; there were no differences between use
  abstract: protective cover, mice harvested the same number of seeds in
  abstract: protective cover), and spent more time foraging out of the
  abstract: red imported fire ants. Deer mice foraged for 60 min in an
  abstract: resource harvest and over/underuse of rich patches relative
  abstract: resource patches in the presence of fire ants. Despite any
  abstract: same proportion of seeds from rich and poor patches. In the
  abstract: strategy in the absence of fire ants to a Bayesian strategy
  abstract: the same total time at the same overall harvest rate in the
  abstract: to poor. Deer mice switched from a fixed search time
  note: by Wendee Nicole Holtcamp.
  note: "Major subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1995.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major wildlife and fisheries sciences
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-H65
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-H65
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960709
    record change date: 20220103134656.0
    record identifier: in00001310179