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Behavioral ecology

a foraging rule stating that an animal should leave a food patch when its intake rate there drops to the average rate available across the habitat.

In behavioral ecology, marginal value theorem refers to a foraging rule stating that an animal should leave a food patch when its intake rate there drops to the average rate available across the habitat. This meaning comes from Charnov (1976) in Theoretical Population Biology.[1]

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References

Charnov, E. L. (1976). Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem. Theoretical Population Biology, 9(2), 129-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(76)90040-x

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