The effects of food quality and temperature on the nutrition of the carnivorous sea urchin Eucidaris tribuloides (Lamarck)

On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment

Robert H. MacArthur, Eric R. Pianka · The American Naturalist · 1966 · 4.5K citations

Mathematical Programming, Engineering, Fitness +18

Theory of Feeding Strategies

Thomas W. Schoener · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1971 · 3.5K citations

Nutrition, Economics, Foraging +11

ASSIMILATION OF ORGANIC MATTER BY ZOOPLANKTON1

Robert J. Conover · Limnology and Oceanography · 1966 · 869 citations

Bioconcentration, Environmental Chemistry, Engineering +12

On the Theory of Optimal Diets

H. Ronald Pulliam · The American Naturalist · 1974 · 724 citations

Food Choice, Mathematical Economics, Economics +12

Physiological Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach to Resource Use

Joshua Elliott, Colin R. Townsend, Peter Calow · Journal of Animal Ecology · 1983 · 674 citations

Fitness, Evolutionary Biology, Physiological Ecology +2