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Behavioural ecology

amount of food left in a patch when a forager quits, used to measure foraging costs including predation risk.

In behavioural ecology, giving-up density refers to amount of food left in a patch when a forager quits, used to measure foraging costs including predation risk. This meaning comes from Brown (1988) in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.[1]

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References

Brown, J. S. (1988). Patch use as an indicator of habitat preference, predation risk, and competition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 22(1), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00395696

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