Foraging in a patchy environment by a pr
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Colin R Townsend; Alan G Hildrew
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Article
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1980
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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The predatory larvae of the caddis Plectrocnemia conspersa (Curtis) cause significant prey depletion in a habitat in which prey are patchily distributed. Optimal foraging theory predicts that under these circumstances a predator should stay in any given patch until the prey capture rate there drops