Reliability and the value of information

By M. Koops. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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What makes information valuable: signal reliability and environmental uncertainty (2006, background): “Behavioural ecologists have in turn focused on the evolutionary economics of information, asking, for example, whether it pays to attend to or ignore an environmental signal (Stephens 1989; Bradbury & Vehrencamp 2000; Koops 2004).”
Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 1. Escape decisions in relation to the risk of predation (2005, background): “This is despite the fact that the mechanisms with which animals perceive and learn about the risk of predation have been shown to influence their behavioural options and change the predictions of theoretical models (e.g. Luttbeg & Schmitz 2000; Luttbeg 2002; Welton et al. 2003; Fernández-Juricic et ”
Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 2. The visual cues (2005, background): “The information that prey animals have available to make decisions is limited by these constraints with far-reaching consequences for their behavioural options and their lifestyles (Bouskila & Blumstein 1992; Sih 1992; Koops & Abrahams 1998; Lima 1998; Martin & Lopez 1999; Luttbeg & Schmitz 2000; Lu”
An avian eavesdropping network: alarm signal reliability and heterospecific response (2009, background): “This is because the cost of not responding to a ‘‘true’’ alarm call is likely to be much greater than responding unnecessarily to a ‘‘false’’ one, in which situation even quite unreli- able calls can select for a response (Koops 2004; Searcy and Nowicki 2005).”
Trade‐Offs in the Adaptive Use of Social and Asocial Learning (2005, background): “Despite this, current theoretical work regarding the reliability and value of information in communication systems (Koops, 2004) suggests that, even if the costs of misinformation are high, animals should still use information, provided that it is usually reliable.”