説明
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Foraging behavior is central to issues such as the structure and composition of animal communities (Schoener 1987), the abundance and spatial distribution of organisms (Fretwell 1972), the extent to which sociality may evolve (Wilson 1975, pp. 49-57), and intra- and interspecific competition. It is not surprising that this realization in the late 1960s (MacArthur&Pianka 1966) spawned an exponential surge of research into foraging behavior (Schoener 1987). The application of optimality models to the study of foraging behavior led to a number of simple, explicit, economic foraging models that made quantitative, testable predictions. As a consequence, a field known today as “Foraging Theory” quickly emerged in the midlle 970s (Stephens&Krebs 1986).</jats:p> <jats:p>The use of simple optimality models has been particularly successful in ad dressing two foraging decisions: whether to attack an encountered prey (prey models) and whether to persist exploiting a patch (patch models; Stephens&Krebs 1986).</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Game Theory&Animal Behavior
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Game Theory&Animal Behavior 16-37, 1998-02-05
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
