Marine microscopic plastic (microplastic) debris is a modern societal issue, illustrating the
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An exciting area in behavioural ecology focuses on understanding why animals exhibit
consistent among-individual differences in behaviour (animal personalities). Animal …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

The essential textbook on agent-based modeling—now fully updated and expanded Agent-
Based and Individual-Based Modeling has become the standard textbook on the subject for …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

Parental care is a trait that shows tremendous diversity both within and across different
animal taxa, and is an important topic in evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology …

Modern decision neuroscience offers a powerful and broad account of human behaviour
using computational techniques that link psychological and neuroscientific approaches to …

Carry‐over effects occur when processes in one season influence the success of an
individual in the following season. This phenomenon has the potential to explain a large …

This account of the current state of foraging theory is also a valuable description of the use of
optimality theory in behavioral ecology in general. Organizing and introducing the main …

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