Barney Luttbeg

I am interested in how individuals respond to changing environments and
how the behaviors of individuals shape the dynamics of ecological and
evolutionary systems. I am now primarily studying how prey behavior in
response to predation risk affects community dynamics, and how prey and
predators distribute themselves across space in response to each other.
In the past, I primarily studied how females should gather and use
information when making mate choice decisions and I remain interested
in the topic. I use empirical studies and mathematical and
computational models to investigate these questions.

btluttbeg@ucdavis.edu

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Publications
Luttbeg, B. and J. L. Kerby. 2006. Are scared prey as good as dead? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20:416-418. pdf
Luttbeg B. and A. Sih. 2004. Predator and prey habitat selection games: the
effects of how prey balance foraging and predation risk. Israel Journal
of Zoology, 50:233-254. (invited compendium on predation risk)
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Luttbeg, B. 2004. Female mate assessment and choice behavior affect the frequency of alternative male mating tactics. Behavioral Ecology 15: 239–247. Click for pdf
Luttbeg, B. and T. Langen. 2004. Comparing Alternative Models to Empirical Data: Cognitive Models of Western Scrub-Jay Foraging Behavior. American Naturalist 163: 263-276. Click for pdf
Luttbeg, B., L. Rowe, and M. Mangel. 2003. Prey state and experimental design affect relative size of trait- and density-mediated indirect effects. Ecology 84:1140-1150. pdf
Luttbeg, B. 2002. Assessing the robustness and optimality of alternative decision rules with varying assumptions. Animal Behaviour 63: 805–814. Click here for pdf
Luttbeg, B., Towner, M. C., Wandesforde-Smith, A., Mangel, M. & Foster, S. A. 2001: State- dependent mate-assessment and mate-selection behavior in female threespine sticklebacks (Gasteros- teus aculeatus, Gasterosteiformes: Gasterosteidae). Ethology 107, 545-558. Click for pdf
Luttbeg, B. and O. Schmitz. 2000. Predator and Prey Models with Flexible Individual Behavior and Imperfect Information. 155: 669-683. Click for pdf
 
   
 

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