The joint #evolution of #animal #movement and #competition #strategies

#AmericanNaturalist

"Spatially explicit #forager - #kleptoparasite model where consumers can either forage or steal resource items from conspecifics (#kleptoparasitism). 3 scenarios: (1) foragers without kleptoparasites, (2) consumers specializing as foragers or as kleptoparasites and (3) consumers that can switch between foraging and kleptoparasitism depending on local conditions"

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/725394

#Foraging #animals often steal from each other. Here, Gupte et al. show in an eco-evolutionary model how such #kleptoparasitism affects #movementStrategy #evolution and resource-exploitation patterns!

Now available on the ahead of print page: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725394