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Evolutionary stability of optimal foraging: partial preferences in the diet and patch models

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In this article the patch and diet choice models of the optimal foraging theory are re-analyzed with respect to evolutionary stability of the optimal foraging strategies. In their original setting these fundamental models consider a single consumer only and the resulting fitness functions are both frequency and density independent. Such fitness function do not allow us to apply the classical game theoretical methods to study evolutionary stability of optimal foraging strategies for competing animals. In this article frequency and density dependent fitness functions of optimal foraging are derived by separation of time scales in an underlying population dynamical model and corresponding evolutionarily stable strategies are calculated. Contrary to the classical foraging models the results of the present article predict that partial preferences occur in optimal foraging strategies as a consequence of the ecological feedback of consumer preferences on consumer fitness. In the case of the patch occupation model these partial preferences correspond to the Ideal Free Distribution concept while in the case of the diet choice model they correspond to the partial inclusion of the less profitable prey type in predators diet.
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hal-00637808 , version 1 (03-11-2011)

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Vlastimil Křivan. Evolutionary stability of optimal foraging: partial preferences in the diet and patch models. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2010, 267 (4), pp.486. ⟨10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.014⟩. ⟨hal-00637808⟩

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