... adaptive trade-off behaviors natural systems ecology populations adaptive individuals individual-based models physiology neurobiology state-based theory prediction-based theory This book is about explicitly including individual adaptive behavior in the ways we study and model ecological systems...

... of feedbacks feedbacks of adaptive behavior time horizon prediction in theory for adaptive behavior reproduction in fitness measures adaptive behaviors decision algorithms in state and prediction based theory nonoptimality advantages starvation state-based theory prediction-based theory individual...

... patterns used to evaluate model results arbitrariness in dynamic state variable models terminal effects of time horizon time horizon dynamic state variable modeling DSVM reproduction in fitness measures diurnal cycles model complexity adaptive behaviors state-based theory prediction-based theory...

... trout model contingent adaptive behaviors habitat selection reproduction in fitness measures dynamic state variable modeling DSVM patterns used to evaluate model results state-based theory prediction-based theory dynamic state variable modeling salmonid fishes life history salmonid life...

... for individual based models physiology and adaptive behavior state-based theory prediction-based theory populations communities adaptive individuals dynamic state variable modeling adaptive trade-off decisions individual-based population models In the previous chapters we provided an introduction to SPT...

... feeding models empirical research and models evolution as a mechanism changing traits state-based theory prediction-based theory model credibility model validation individual-based models adaptive individual behavior trout model salmonid models In modeling populations of adaptive individuals, we...

...-based theory prediction-based theory foragers foraging patch selection food availability predation risk fitness measure Here we start illustrating how to use SPT in detail, by applying it to an extremely simple model of how hypothetical foragers select among patches that differ in both food...

... models patterns used to evaluate model results energetics models dynamic state variable modeling DSVM time horizon state-based theory prediction-based theory dynamic state variable modeling animal foraging foraging activity physiology foraging behavior energy assimilation limpets Cella grata...

... modeling adaptive individuals individual-based population modeling state-based theory prediction-based theory individual adaptive behavior theory testing cycle pattern-oriented theory development ecologists ecology This book is a collaboration between an engineer and an aquatic ecologist, both...