Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection

Theory.- Predator switching and the interpretation of animal choice behaviour: the case for constrained optimization..- Foraging in the context of life-history: general principles and specific models..- The starvation-predation trade-off and some behavioural and ecological consequences..- Timing mechanisms in optimal foraging: some applications of scalar expectancy theory..- On evaluation of foraging strategies through estimates of reproductive success..- Evaluation and Selection of Food Items.- Active diet selection or passive reflection of changing food availability: the underwater foraging behaviour of canvasback ducks..- Territorial salamanders evaluate size and chitinous content of arthropod prey..- Are rules of thumb sufficient for the starling's choice of food according to gain in energy?.- Prey selection and processing in a stomatopod crustacean..- Constraints and Physiological State.- Time scale and diet choice decisions..- Food requirement and risk-sensitive foraging in shortfall minimizers..- The combined effects of learning and hunger in the feeding behaviour of the fifteen-spined stickleback (Spinachia spinachia)..- The role of behaviour and morphology in the selection of prey by pike..- How important are nutrient constraints in optimal foraging models or are spatial/temporal factors more important?.- Ontogenetic Changes in Food Selection.- Ecological and morphological aspects of changes in food uptake through the ontogeny of Haplochromis piceatus..- Predicting ontogenetic niche shifts in the field: what can be gained by foraging theory?.- Bulk Processors: Mammalian Grazers.- The impact of different growth patterns on the utilization of tree species by a generalist herbivore, the moose Alces alces: implication of optimal foraging theory..- Rules and cues used by sheep foraging in monocultures..- Constraints on diet selection and foraging behaviour in mammalian herbivores..- Diet selection by generalist herbivores: a test of the linear programming model..- A reply to Hobbs..- Applicability of five diet-selection models to various foraging challenges ruminants encounter..- Bulk Processors: Invertebrate Grazers.- The characteristics of algae in relation to their vulnerability to grazing snails..- Comparative foraging behavior of tropical and boreal sea urchins..- Bulk Processors: Deposit Feeders.- Effects of food value of artificial and natural sediments on functional response and net rate of energy gain by a deposit-feeding polychaete..- Supply-side optimization: maximizing absorptive rates..- Foraging strategy of a deposit feeding crab..- Bulk Processors: Filter Feeders.- Retention efficiency, perceptual bias, and active choice as mechanisms of food selection by suspension-feeding zooplankton..- Concentration-variable interactions between calanoid copepods and particles of different food quality: observations and hypotheses..- Water processing in filter-feeding bivalves..- Behavioural plasticity in the suspension feeding of benthic animals..- Interactions among Foragers: Social Co-Operation.- How trail laying and trail following can solve foraging problems for ant colonies..- Interactions among Foragers: Competition.- Intraspecific kleptoparasitism and foraging efficiency as constraints on food selection by kelp gulls Larus dominicanus..- Foraging in the black-headed gull: compensatory site selection by immatures..- Interactions between Foragers and other Animals: Predation.- Information overload and food selection..- Diet selection under the risk of predation..- Interacting effects of predator and prey behavior in determining diets..- Hunting by the hunted: optimal prey selection by foragers under predation hazard..- Interactions between Foragers and other Animals: Fisheries Management.- On the role of ecological experimentation in resource management: managing fisheries through mechanistic understanding of predator feeding behavior..- The role of the optimal diet predator in multispecies fishery assessment..- Round-Table Discussion (1).- Can there be a general theory of diet selection?.- Round-Table Discussion (2).- The role and importance of optimal foraging theory in ecology.- Participants and Addresses.- Inde.