Figure 8.

Summarized taxonomy of foraging strategies. See table 1 for details. In different environments with three patch types (low: red, medium: yellow, high: green yielding), the different time series of decision variables (for a single patch decision) and patch visit time intervals. (a) In habitat choice, an animal must determine whether its current patch is of the highest yielding type, departing if the probability that it is not in the highest reaches some threshold, and undergoing a sequence of patch visits until finding and remaining in a high-yielding patch. (b) An ideal forager performing patch exploitation infers the yield rate of its current patch and departs when the resource yield rate reaches a threshold, continuing patch visits indefinitely in large environments.