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Herbivores and the Spatial Distributions of the Phytoplankton III. Estimating the Number of Good Foraging Places

✍ Scribed by Creighton D. Wirick

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 912 KB
Volume: 77
Category: Article
ISSN: 1434-2944
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19920770303

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✦ Synopsis

During critical periods, the survival of a herbivorous zooplankter or ichthyoplankter may depend upon the animal encountering food in excess of a critical concentration. During such times, the value of the animal's habitat is related to the relative number of places where food exceeds the critical Concentration. CHEBYSHEV'S mathematical inequality gives a nonparametric upper bound for the probability that a place selected at random from a habitat will contain such excess food. The probability is proportional to the sum of the variance and mean squared of the food distribution, which is also a measure of the habitat's value to the animal.

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