Pollinator foraging strategies in mixed floral arrays: Density effects and floral constancy
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Pollinator foraging strategies in mixed floral arrays: Density effects and floral constancy
zbMATH Open document ID: 0855.92025
author: Yoh Iwasa
author: William E. Kunin
published in: Theoretical Population Biology
publication date: 1997-02-09T00:00:00Z
review text: We present a greatly simplified model of pollinator foraging in a mixed floral array and explore its dynamic consequences. We then progressively relax a few of the most restrictive assumptions of our initial model in more complex (and less tractable) versions of the model, and we demonstrate many of the same properties and a few new ones. We will also briefly discuss a computer simulation reported in the first author's Ph.D. thesis [Univ. Washington (1991)] in which several more complications were introduced, again with little effect on the behavior of the model. Finally, we will discuss some of the predictions of behavioral game models like those presented here for explaining the behavior of pollinators and other foragers, as well as the possible implications for understanding the pollination biology of plants as a function of their population density.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A40
zbMATH DE Number: 885036
zbMATH Keywords: pollinator foraging
zbMATH Keywords: mixed floral array
zbMATH Keywords: simulation
zbMATH Keywords: behavioral game models
Wikidata QID: Q71545330
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: tpbi.1996.0013
OpenAlex ID: W1992747240
DOI: 10.1006/TPBI.1996.0013
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