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.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1980-02-01
- Cited by
- 414
- References
- 26
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Keywords
Foraging, Optimal foraging theory, Maximization, Ecology, Stochastic modelling
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