Behavioral interference and facilitation in the foraging cycle shape the functional response
Nilsson, Anders LU
; Lundberg, Per
LU
; Brönmark, Christer
LU
; Persson, Anders
LU
and Turesson, Håkan
LU
(2007)
In Behavioral Ecology
18(2).
p.354-357
- Abstract
- Individual forager behaviors should affect per capita intake rates and thereby population and consumer-resource properties. We consider and incorporate conspecific facilitation and interference during the separate foraging-cycle stages in a functional response model that links individual behavioral interactions with consumer-resource processes. Our analyses suggest that failing to properly consider and include all effects of behavioral interactions on foraging-cycle stage performances may either over- or underestimate effects of interactions on the shape of both functional responses and predator zero-growth isoclines. Incorporation of prey- and predator-dependent interactions among foragers in the model produces predator isoclines with... (More)
- Individual forager behaviors should affect per capita intake rates and thereby population and consumer-resource properties. We consider and incorporate conspecific facilitation and interference during the separate foraging-cycle stages in a functional response model that links individual behavioral interactions with consumer-resource processes. Our analyses suggest that failing to properly consider and include all effects of behavioral interactions on foraging-cycle stage performances may either over- or underestimate effects of interactions on the shape of both functional responses and predator zero-growth isoclines. Incorporation of prey- and predator-dependent interactions among foragers in the model produces predator isoclines with potentials for highly complex consumer-resource dynamics. Facilitation and interference during the foraging cycle are therefore suggested as potent behavioral mechanisms to cause patterns of community dynamics. We emphasize that correct estimations of interaction-mediated foraging-cycle efficiencies should be considered in empirical and theoretical attempts to further our understanding of the mechanistic link between social behaviors and higher order processes. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Anders
LU
; Lundberg, Per
LU
; Brönmark, Christer
LU
; Persson, Anders
LU
and Turesson, Håkan
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2007
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- Behavioral Ecology
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 354 - 357
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- wos:000244658100012
- scopus:33847611142
- ISSN
- 1045-2249
- DOI
- 10.1093/beheco/arl094
- language
- English
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- yes
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