Social Foraging Theory

by Luc-Alain Giraldeau and Thomas Caraco

Book Overview

Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging--the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups--has been relatively neglected. This book redresses that situation by providing both a synthesis of the existing literature and a new theory of social foraging. Giraldeau and Caraco develop models informed by game theory that offer a new framework...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048770
• ISBN13: 9780691048772
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"