Spatial distribution and deviations from the IFD when animals forage over large resource patches -- Miller and Coll 21 (5): 927 -- Behavioral Ecology

Spatial distribution and deviations from the IFD when animals forage over large resource patches -- Miller and Coll 21 (5): 927 -- Behavioral Ecology: "Animal distribution among resource patches in a habitat has for the most part been treated as a deterministic process. When patch size is large compared with the animal’s foraging range, individuals assess the quality of the patch by sampling small fractions of it, the sampled area (SA). In doing so, each individual may experience different patch qualities because of stochastic distribution of animal numbers in different SAs."