Figure 2.

Framework for an agent‐based model of biomass encounter rates. Three assumptions underpin movement and resource encounters in the model: (1) benthic consumers have either discoid (orange and blue) or hemispheric (green) encounter regions that scale with body mass; (2) consumers and resources that move do so via random walks at a velocity that scales with body length, and; (3) planktonic resources are also subject to unidirectional laminar flow imposed on their random walks.