As most parasitoids are time limited, they usually die before they have laid all their eggs. In
such cases, optimal foraging theory predicts that female parasitoids will adopt behavioral …

Visual search (VS) is a fundamental task in daily life widely studied for over half a century. A
variant of the classic paradigm—searching one target among distractors—requires the …

The patch-leaving problem is a canonical foraging task, in which a forager must decide to
leave a current resource in search for another. Theoretical work has derived optimal …

The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, is an alien pest native to East Asia,
which in the past two decades has invaded USA, Europe and other countries around the …

Moving and spatial learning are two intertwined processes:(a) changes in movement
behavior determine the learning of the spatial environment, and (b) information plays a …

Abstract The Charnov Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) predicts the optimal foraging duration
of animals exploiting patches of resources. The predictions of this model have been verified …

The value of acquiring environmental information depends on the costs of collecting it and
its utility. Foragers that search for patchily distributed resources may use experiences in …

Foraging theory seeks to explain how the distribution and abundance of prey influence the
evolution of predatory behaviour, including the allocation of effort to searching for prey and …

North American researchers interested in explaining technological variation and change as
a consequence of adaptive problem solving have gravitated toward two conceptual …

Abstract Ehrlich and Raven's (1964) hypothesis on coevolution has stimulated numerous
phylogenetic studies that focus on the effects of plant defensive chemistry as the main …