The last few decades have witnessed a rapid rise in the use of foraging models derived from
behavioral ecology to explain and predict temporal and spatial differences in faunal …

For many squirrel species, their intense–arguably coevolutionary–interactions with seed and
nut producing trees have significantly shaped their biology and diversity. Here we provide …

Breeding seabirds are extreme central-place foragers, commuting long distances between
colonies and feeding areas. Central-place foraging theory predicts that prey items close to …

Oak Forest Ecosystems focuses on the relationship between an oak forest's acorn yield and
species of wildlife that depend on it. It begins by treating factors such as oak distribution …

Asymmetrical competition determines which of two seed predators drives the evolution of
lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia) cones. Red squirrels (Tamiasciurus …

Few studies have shown both reciprocal selection and reciprocal adaptations for a
coevolving system in the wild. The goal of our study was to determine whether the patterns …

DIAGNOSIS, Tamiaseiurus hudsonicus is easily distinguished from other tree squirrels by its
smaller body size «30% of that of the gray squirrel, Sciurus earolinensis), its deep reddish …

The geographic mosaic theory of coevolution posits that the form of selection between
interacting species varies across a landscape with coevolution important and active in some …

It is our goal in this text to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme for exposing
students to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior and to demonstrate that …

This paper uses rationale derived from central place foraging models to explore the factors
that guide the carcass processing and transport decisions of modern hunters. Using data …