Exploring or Avoiding Novel Food Resources? The Novelty Conflict in an Invasive Bird

Exploring or Avoiding Novel Food Resources? The Novelty Conflict in an Invasive Bird

For an animal invading a novel region, the ability to develop new behaviors should facilitate the use of novel food resources and hence increase its survival in the new environment. However, the need to explore new resources may entail costs such as exposing the animal to unfamiliar predators. These two opposing forces result in an exploration-avoidance conflict, which can be expected to interf...

Invasive plants as novel food resources , the pollinators ’ perspective

Invasive plants as novel food resources, the pollinators’ perspective 2 Ignasi Bartomeus, Jochen Fründ and Neal M. Williams 4 1 Estación Biólogica de Doñana Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EBDCSIC), Dept. Integrative Ecology. Sevilla, Spain. 6 2 University of Guelph, Dept. Integrative Biology, Guelph, ON, Canada 3 University of California, Dept. Ento...

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Strongly Conflict-Avoiding Codes

Strongly conflict-avoiding codes are used in the asynchronous multiple-access collision channel without feedback. The number of codewords in a strongly conflict-avoiding code is the number of potential users that can be supported in the system. In this paper, an upper bound on the size of strongly conflictavoiding codes is proved. In addition, we provide an improved upper bound if the codes are...

An expectancy model of Chinese–American differences in conflict-avoiding

Received: 18 December 2002 Revised: 24 January 2005 Accepted: 18 May 2005 Online publication date: 27 October 2005 Abstract This paper develops an expectancy model for Chinese–American differences in conflict-avoiding, and tests this model using a scenario study with respondents from Taiwan and the US. Our results show that a higher Chinese tendency to avoid conflict is explained by higher Chin...