Optimal foraging: food patch depletion by ruddy ducks
dc.contributor.author | Tome, Michael W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T19:22:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T19:22:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1988-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Tome, Michael W.; (1988). "Optimal foraging: food patch depletion by ruddy ducks." Oecologia 76(1): 27-36. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/47772> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1432-1939 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0029-8549 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/47772 | |
dc.description.abstract | I studied the foraging behavior of ruddy ducks ( Oxyura jamaicensis ) feeding on patchily distributed prey in a large (5-m long, 2-m wide, and up to 2-m deep) aquarium. The substrate consisted of a 4x4 array of wooden trays (1.0-m long, 0.5-m wide, and 0.1-m deep) which contained 6 cm of sand. Any tray could be removed from the aquarium and “loaded” with a known number of prey. One bird foraged in the aquarium at a time; thus, by removing a food tray after a trial ended and counting the remaining prey, I calculated the number of prey consumed by the bird. I designed several experiments to determine if ruddy ducks abandoned a food patch in a manner consistent with the predictions of a simple, deterministic, patch depletion model. This model is based on the premise that a predator should maximize its rate of net energy intake while foraging. To accomplish this, a predator should only remain in a food patch as long as its rate of energy intake from that patch exceeds the average rate of intake from the environment. In the majority of comparisons, the number of food items consumed by the ruddy ducks in these experiments was consistent with the predictions of the foraging model. When the birds did not forage as predicted by the model, they stayed in the patch longer and consumed more prey than predicted by the model. An examination of the relation between rate of net energy intake and time spent foraging in the food patch indicated that by staying in a patch longer than predicted, the ruddy ducks experienced only a small deviation from maximum rate of net energy intake. These results provided quantitative support for the prediction that ruddy ducks maximize their rate of net energy intake while foraging. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Optimal Foraging | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Oxyura Jamaicensis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ruddy Ducks | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Plant Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Patch Depletion | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Marginal Value Theorem | en_US |
dc.title | Optimal foraging: food patch depletion by ruddy ducks | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Natural Resources and Environment | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Delta Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Station, R.R. no 1, MB R1N 3A1, Portage la Prairie, Canada; School of Natural Resources, The University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 20708, Laurel, MD, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/47772/1/442_2004_Article_BF00379596.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00379596 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Oecologia | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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