However, bees display a rich and interesting behavioral repertoire, in which learning and memory play a fundamental role in the framework of foraging activities.
In the broader ecological literature on foraging and forager functional responses, Holling's disc equation (Holling 1959) provides one commonly used framework for modelling resource capture.
Our recent studies have developed a framework of mosquito foraging for oviposition sites based on biological characteristics, e.g. limited flight ability, short perceptual ranges, and small energetic budget [8], [35].
We model organism movement using a diffusion framework in which the foraging population is divided into two subpopulations engaged in intensive and extensive search modes respectively.
Previous studies focused on avoidance learning in foraging bees and preserved therefore an appetitive framework [28] [32].
We quantified foraging behaviour using the giving-up density (GUD) framework, across two sites that differed in the extent of bush encroachment.
However, MORPH contains a basic framework to describe animal physiology and foraging behaviour, and the distribution and abundance of the resources required by these animals.
This assumption could be, however, erroneous as the behavioral traits that have been related so far to sucrose responsiveness all have in common, an appetitive framework, i.e. are related to foraging behavior.
From this perspective, the framework considered here is certainly distinct from that corresponding to foraging activities and thus to a foraging syndrome.
The model is grounded in reinforcement learning, a framework whose various instantiations have been applied previously to successfully explain foraging behavior.
