On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment
- 1 November 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 100 (916) , 603-609
- https://doi.org/10.1086/282454
Abstract
A graphical method is discussed which allows specification of optimal diet and optimal feeding patch selection. Patch itinerary, but not diet within a patch, should be restricted when competition is added. Patch utilization should be enlarged when patches are smaller. Diet should be restricted when food density is increased. Other similar predictions are made.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?The American Naturalist, 1959
- A Theoretical Ecological Model of Size Distributions Among Species of AnimalsThe American Naturalist, 1959