Info-gap robust-satisficing model of foraging behavior: Do foragers optimize or satisfice?

American Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 633-641

  Carmel, Yohay ^a   Ben Haim, Yakov ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Info gaps; Knightian uncertainty; Optimal foraging; Robustness; Satisficing

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SONGBIRDS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; KNIGHTIA;

EID: 27744433247     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/491691     Document Type: Review

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