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American Zoologist 1983 23(2):303-313; doi:10.1093/icb/23.2.303
© 1983 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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A Class of Patch-Use Strategies1

JAMES N. MCNAIR
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

A class of models for economic, or optimal, foraging in a patchy habitat is characterized. All models in the class share a number of ecologically important properties, but there are important differences, as well. These models are well suited to studying properties of a variety of simple behavioral rules which foragers might use in deciding when to leave a patch. Several extensions and limitations of the class are also pointed out.


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