Departure time versus departure rate: How to forage optimally when you are stupid

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 411-421

  Adler, Frederick R ^a   Kotar, Mirjam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blundering foragers; Error constrained foraging; Marginal value theorem; Optimal foraging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000363115     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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