FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION ON INFORMATION-TRANSFER STRATEGIES AT BREEDING COLONIES - A SIMULATION STUDY

被引：16

作者：

BARTA, Z

SZEP, T

机构：

[1] Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Pf 3

[2] Ecological Research Group, Hungarian Ornithological Society, Budapest,H-1121

来源：

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY | 1995年 / 6卷 / 03期

基金：

匈牙利科学研究基金会;

关键词：

COLONIAL BREEDING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOOD PATTERNS; FORAGING; INFORMATION CENTER; SIMULATION;

D O I：

10.1093/beheco/6.3.308

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Through computer simulations, we model three different food finding strategies: searcher, no information transfer; watcher limited information transfer; follower, full information transfer. The aim of this article was to study how frequency-dependent selection affects the proportion of these strategies at a simulated colony under different patterns of food distribution. Furthermore, we determined how information transfer in a population with a mixed evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) modified the average foraging efficiency of an individual compared to that of an individual in a population with mutual information exchange. We found that the proportion of information gaining strategies increases as the food resources became more clumped. The improvement in foraging efficiency through the operation of an information center need not require mutuality in information exchange. On the basis of the presented study, at the ESS only a small percentage of colony members need discover food patches, yet the foraging efficiency may be high because of the operation of an information center.

引用

页码：308 / 310

页数：3

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