Ecological decision-making: From circuit elements to emerging principles

AM Hein - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
The interactions an animal has with its prey, predators, neighbors, and competitors are
known as ecological interactions. Making effective decisions during ecological interactions …

The environment to the rescue: can physics help predict predator–prey interactions?

M Cherif, U Brose, MR Hirt, R Ryser, V Silve… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors that determine the occurrence and strength of ecological
interactions under specific abiotic and biotic conditions is fundamental since many aspects …

Wild animals suppress the spread of socially transmitted misinformation

AK Fahimipour, MA Gil, MR Celis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the mechanisms by which information and misinformation spread through
groups of individual actors is essential to the prediction of phenomena ranging from …

Multiple preferred escape trajectories are explained by a geometric model incorporating prey's turn and predator attack endpoint

Y Kawabata, H Akada, K Shimatani, GN Nishihara… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The escape trajectory (ET) of prey–measured as the angle relative to the predator's
approach path–plays a major role in avoiding predation. Previous geometric models predict …

Simulating the migration dynamics of juvenile salmonids through rivers and estuaries using a hydrodynamically driven enhanced particle tracking model

VK Sridharan, U of California… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Juvenile salmonids migrate hundreds of kilometers from their natal streams to mature in the
ocean. Throughout this migration, they respond to environmental cues such as local water …

Prey selection along a predators' body size gradient evidences the role of different trait-based mechanisms in food web organization

E Ortiz, R Ramos-Jiliberto, M Arim - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
An increase in prey richness, prey size and predator trophic position with predator body size
has been consistently reported as prime features of food web organization. These trends …

Optimal strategies for pursuit-evasion differential games of players with damped double integrator dynamics

S Li, C Wang, G Xie - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate and derive optimal strategies for the pursuit-evasion problem of
two players with damped double integrator dynamics. The pursuer is assumed to have a …

[HTML][HTML] Zoophytophagous predator sex pheromone and visual cues of opposing reflectance spectra lure predator and invasive prey

B Adams, FM Khamis, AA Yusuf, B Torto - Journal of Advanced Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction In sub-Saharan Africa, the invasive South American leafminer
Phthorimaea absoluta is the most damaging tomato pest. Females of the pest can reproduce …

Modulation of prey capture kinematics in relation to prey distance helps predict success

CE Oufiero, L Garikipati, E McMillan… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Predators are not perfect, as some of their prey capture attempts result in failure. Successful
attempts may be partly due to predators modulating their capture kinematics in relation to …

[PDF][PDF] Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene.

J Szymkowiak, KA Schmidt - Oikos, 2022 - researchgate.net
Page 2 of 3 distribution facilitates or hinders individuals to be informed, and the population-
level consequences thereof. The authors demonstrate that information and heterogeneity …