Apostatic Selection as an Optimal Foraging Strategy
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 51 (2) , 625-633
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3987
Abstract
Two simple optimal diet models were examined and are capable of predicting a variety of effects similar to those of frequency-dependent selection. The type of frequency-dependent behavior predicted depends on wether the predator can search simultaneously for the prey species it attacks or not. The models predict that the intensity of detected selection should decline with increasing prey exploitation. The models are compared with some published literature.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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