Behavior Research

Selected Behavior papers

E. Arehart and F. R. Adler. A minimal model of learning: quantifying the cost and benefit of learning in changing environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290:20231084, 2023.

E. Arehart, J. R. Reimer, and F. R. Adler. Strategy maps: Generalised giving-up densities for optimal foraging. Ecology Letters, 26:398--410, 2023.

F. R. Adler, S. Quinonez, N. Plowes, and E. S. Adams. A mechanistic model of ant battles and its consequences for territory scaling. Am. Nat., 92:204--216, 2018.

S. M. Countryman, M. C. Stumpe, S. P. Crow, F. R. Adler, M. J. Greene, M. Vonshak, and D. M. Gordon. Collective search by ants in microgravity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3:25, 2015.

J. M. C. Pearce-Duvet, M. Moyano, F. R. Adler, and D. H. Feener. Fast food in ant communities: how competing species find resources. Oecologia, 167:229--240, 2011.

F. R. Adler. Plant signalling: the opportunities and dangers of chemical communication. Biology Letters, 7:161--162, 2011.

C. J. Tanner and F. R. Adler. To fight or not to fight: context-dependent interspecific aggression in competing ants. Anim. Behav., 77:297--305, 2009.

A. D. Kay and F. R. Adler. Optimal tempo and defense for consumers of multiple resources. Evol. Ecol. Res., 5:701--716, 2004.

F. R. Adler and D. M. Gordon. Optimization, conflict, and non-overlapping foraging ranges in ants. Am. Nat., 162:529--543, 2003.

T. T. Hills and F. R. Adler. Time's crooked arrow: Rate-biased time perception and optimal foraging. Anim. Behav., 64:589--597, 2002.

F. R. Adler, A. de Roos, and S. Richards. Patterns of patch rejection in size-structured populations: Beyond the ideal free distribution and size segregation. Evol. Ecol. Res., 3:805--827, 2001.

F. R. Adler and M. Kotar. Departure time versus departure rate: How to forage optimally when you are stupid. Evol. Ecol. Res., 11:411--421, 1999.

D. W. Winkler and F. R. Adler. Dynamic state variable models for parental care: I. A submodel for the growth of the chicks of passerine birds. Journal of Avian Biology, 27:343--353, 1996.

M. Mangel, J. A. Rosenheim, and F. R. Adler. Clutch size, offspring performance, and intergenerational fitness. Behav. Ecol., 5:412--417, 1994.

F. R. Adler and R. Karban. Defended fortresses or moving targets? another model of inducible defenses inspired by military metaphors. Am. Nat., 144:813--832, 1994.

F. R. Adler and D. M. Gordon. Information collection and spread by networks of patrolling ants. Am. Nat., 140:373--400, 1992.

F. R. Adler and C. D. Harvell. Inducible defenses, phenotypic plasticity and biotic environments. Trends Ecol. Evol., 5:407--410, 1990.