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Foraging Competence

Foraging Competence is a behavioral ecological construct that denotes an individual's proficiency in locating, selecting, and efficiently exploiting natural food resources within a wild environment, distinguishing it from general survival skills by its specific focus on nutritional self-sufficiency through innate or learned foraging behaviors.

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Stable isotopes indicate sex-specific and long-term individual foraging specialisation in diving seabirds

Stuart Bearhop, RA Phillips, Rona A. R. McGill et al. · Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2006 · 265 citations · Full text

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Effectiveness of new agri-environment schemes in providing foraging resources for bumblebees in intensively farmed landscapes

Richard F. Pywell, E. A. Warman, Lucy Hulmes et al. · Biological Conservation · 2005 · 198 citations

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The Effects of Genotype, Foraging Role, and Sucrose Responsiveness on the Tactile Learning Performance of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.)

Ricarda Scheiner, Robert E. Page, Joachim Erber · Neurobiology of Learning and Memory · 2001 · 194 citations

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Division of labor between scouts and recruits in honeybee foraging

Thomas D. Seeley · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 1983 · 175 citations

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Food availability and foraging by wild colonies of Damaraland mole-rats ( Cryptomys damarensis ): implications for sociality

J. U. M. Jarvis, Nigel C. Bennett, A. C. Spinks · Oecologia · 1998 · 150 citations

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    Robert E. Page

    University of California, Davis, United States

    3 publications · 377 citations

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    Perri K. Eason

    University of Louisville, United States

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  3. KS
    Kimberly Sullivan

    Boston University, United States

    2 publications · 46 citations

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    E. Natasha Vanderhoff

    University of Louisville, United States

    2 publications · 33 citations

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    Sue Boinski

    University of Florida, United States

    2 publications · 163 citations

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  1. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    433 citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    237 citations

  3. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    127 citations

  4. British Antarctic Survey

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    844 citations

  5. Utah State University

    Logan, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    292 citations

  6. Natural Environment Research Council

    Swindon, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    588 citations

  7. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

    Wallingford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    1.4K citations

  8. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    71 citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

    11 publications · 629 citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    7 publications · 606 citations

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  3. Ornithological Applications

    4 publications · 110 citations

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  4. Applied Animal Behaviour Science

    4 publications · 135 citations

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  5. Behavioural Processes

    2 publications · 62 citations

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