ON FORAGING TIME ALLOCATION IN A STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENT

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Summary

It is suggested that maximization of expected utility may be a useful optimization criterion for ecological problems, and the common notion of feeding preferences is extended over the probability distributions of net energetic benefits associated with available resources.

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Published
1980-02-01
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Keywords

Foraging, Optimal foraging theory, Maximization, Ecology, Stochastic modelling

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