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A guide to central place effects in foraging

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  • Olsson, Ola
  • Brown, Joel S.
  • Helf, Kurt L.

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We develop a general patch-use model of central place foraging, which subsumes and extends several previous models. The model produces a catalog of central place effects predicting how distance from a central place influences the costs and benefits of foraging, load-size, quitting harvest rates, and giving-up densities. In the model, we separate between costs that are load-size dependent, i.e. a direct effect of the size of the load, and load-size independent effects, such as correlations between distance and patch qualities. We also distinguish between predictions of between- and within-environment comparisons. Foraging costs, giving-up densities and quitting harvest rates should almost always increase with distance with these effects amplified by increases in metabolic costs, predation risk and load-costs. With respect to load-size: when comparing foraging in patches within an environment, we should often expect smaller loads to be taken from distant patches (negative distance–load correlation). However, when comparing between environments, there should be a positive correlation between average distance and load-size.

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  • Olsson, Ola & Brown, Joel S. & Helf, Kurt L., 2008. "A guide to central place effects in foraging," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 74(1), pages 22-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:thpobi:v:74:y:2008:i:1:p:22-33
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.04.005
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