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Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection examines animals belonging to diverse trophic groups, from carnivores, herbivores, micro-algal grazers, to filter-feeders and detritus-feeders. In the past Optimal Foraging Theory has been applied to all these groups, but in different ways and in disci plines...

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Corporate Authors: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Behavioral Mechanisms of Food Selection University of Wales, SpringerLink (Online service), North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
Other Authors: Hughes, R. N.
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1990]
Series:NATO ASI series. Ecological sciences ; no. 20.
Subjects:
Animals > Food > Congresses.
Food preferences > Congresses.
Animals > Food.
Food preferences.
Alimentos (Industria)
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection examines animals belonging to diverse trophic groups, from carnivores, herbivores, micro-algal grazers, to filter-feeders and detritus-feeders. In the past Optimal Foraging Theory has been applied to all these groups, but in different ways and in disci plines that rarely overlap. Here concepts and developments hitherto scattered in the literature are drawn together. This uniquely broad synthesis captures the state of the art in the study of diet selection and prescribes new objectives in theoretical development and research.
Item Description:"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection, held at [University of Wales Conference Centre] Gregynog, Wales, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 1989"--Title page verso.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 886 pages) : illustrations.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783642751189 (electronic bk.)
3642751180 (electronic bk.)