• DOI:10.1086/499996
• Corpus ID: 18508613

New Insights into the Physiology of Natural Foraging*

@article{Burns2006NewII,
  title={New Insights into the Physiology of Natural Foraging*},
  author={Jennifer M. Burns and Terrie M. Williams and Stephen M. Secor and Norman Owen‐Smith and Naomi A. Bargmann and Michael A. Castellini},
  journal={Physiological and Biochemical Zoology},
  year={2006},
  volume={79},
  pages={242 - 249}
}

• J. Burns, T. Williams, +3 authors M. Castellini
• Published 6 February 2006
• Biology
• Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

The purpose of this symposium was to examine how foraging physiology is studied in the field across a diversity of species and habitats. While field studies are constrained by the relatively poor ability to control the experiment, the natural variability in both the environment and animal behavior provides insights into adaptation to change that are usually not tested in the laboratory. Talks in this session examined how foraging energy (both costs and gains) is partitioned over time. “Time,” in this case, ranged from evolutionary time (how different animals are designed to most efficiently forage), to long, lifetime periods (development of foraging ability and growth), to short‐duration feeding bouts, and ultimately to the minutes to hours following ingestion (metabolic and biochemical changes). From this diversity, two core themes emerged: that foraging strategies and behaviors are limited by physiology and biochemical processes and that time plays a central role in the organization of foraging behaviors and the physiological processes that underlie those behaviors.