The Marginal Value Theorem is a theoretical model in optimal foraging theory that predicts the optimal time an organism should spend foraging in a patch before moving to the next, based on the principle that departure occurs when the marginal gain drops to the average intake rate across all patches.
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Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem
Eric L. Charnov · Theoretical Population Biology · 1976 · 5.4K citations
Optimal foraging in semantic memory.
Thomas T. Hills, Michael N. Jones, Peter M. Todd · Psychological Review · 2012 · 425 citations · Full text
Short-Term Apparent Competition
Robert D. Holt, Burt P. Kotler · The American Naturalist · 1987 · 366 citations
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University of California, Davis
Davis, United States
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University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, United States
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Princeton University
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Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Leiden University
Leiden, The Netherlands
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Wayne State University
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