COS 79 - Behavioral ecology: Foraging and diet

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon V, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
 Lévy flights grounded? No evidence for Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees, or deer
Andrew M. Edwards, Pacific Biological Station; Richard A Phillips, British Antarctic Survey; Nicholas W Watkins, British Antarctic Survey; Mervyn P Freeman, British Antarctic Survey; Eugene J Murphy, British Antarctic Survey
1:50 PM
 Characterizing the clustered behaviour of diving animals-bouts and diving behavior of macaroni penguins
Tom Hart, Imperial College, London; Tim Coulson, University of Oxford; Phil Trathan, British Antarctic Survey
2:10 PM
 Food and safety as determinants of foraging behavior in a desert granivore bird community
Shomen Mukherjee, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; Burt P. Kotler, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Gabrielle A. Archard, University of Bristol; Toby E. Goldberg, Ben-Gurion University
2:30 PM
 Food choice and development of juvenile pike in different habitats within a lake
Lynn Nilsson, Lund university; Jakob Brodersen, Yale University; Anders Nilsson, Lund university
2:50 PM
3:00 PM
 Managing the risk of predation: The use of time allocation and vigilance by gerbils
Burt P. Kotler, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Shomen Mukherjee, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; Joel Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago
3:20 PM
 Do the stoichiometric constraints of diet promote omnivory in a marsh katydid?
Rachel E. Goeriz, University of Maryland; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland
3:40 PM
 Movement of a food resource by Argentine ants in vineyards
Erik H. Nelson, Univeristy of California, Berkeley; Kent M. Daane, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PM
 Foraging related movement as a synthesis of search and navigation in dynamic landscapes
Thomas Mueller, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
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