Optimal foraging theory provides a framework to understand how organisms balance the benefits of harvesting resources within a patch with the sum of the metabolic, predation, and missed opportunity ...

Researchers have found that marine bacteria exploit resource patches efficiently by switching between attached and planktonic lifestyles, and fine-tuning the time spent on patches depending on their ...

Based on papers presented at the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology / Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder ...