Simple models of feeding with time and energy constraints

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-53

  Ydenberg, Ron ^a   Hurd, Pete ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Efficiency maximization; Foraging theory; Rate maximization; Submaximal foraging; Workload

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSTRAINT; FEEDING; FORAGING; MODELLING; TIME CONSTRAINT;

EID: 0031930144     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.1.49     Document Type: Article

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