shivChitinous / optimal-forager

numerical description of optimal foraging

optimal-forager

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Numerical Model of the Marginal Value Theorem

The model helps visualize and understand the subtleties of the marginal value theorem.

Check out model here!

Can play around with the following parameters:

1. Travel Time
2. Resource Richness

To be used as a teaching tool (accompanied by a standard ecology textbook like Begon, Townsend and Harper 4th Ed)